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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Robin Hobb

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Little
Autographs
Writing
Signing
Sitting
Room
Writer
Rooms
Getting
Littles
Autograph

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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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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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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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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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Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.
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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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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 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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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But a living is not a life.
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