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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
Robin Hobb
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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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