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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
Character
Every
Onto
Page
Characters
Writer
Story
Actually
Makes

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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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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.
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It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.
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Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
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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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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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Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
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Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
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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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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
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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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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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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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