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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
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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