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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

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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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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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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Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
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But a living is not a life.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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