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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
Story
Actually
Makes
Character
Every
Onto
Page
Characters
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Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered.
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Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
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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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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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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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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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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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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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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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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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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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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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Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.
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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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