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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
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Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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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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It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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 both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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