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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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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Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.
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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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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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I never confuse the cost of something with its value
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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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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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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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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
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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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