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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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