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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
Peril
Editors
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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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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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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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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 began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
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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 told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.
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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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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