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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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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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.
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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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But a living is not a life.
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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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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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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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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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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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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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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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