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Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

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
Characters
Writer
Story
Actually
Makes
Character
Every
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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.
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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
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Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.
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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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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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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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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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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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You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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