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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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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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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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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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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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But a living is not a life.
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.
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We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
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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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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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