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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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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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The fight isn't over until you win.
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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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But a living is not a life.
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Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
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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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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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The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.
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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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What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
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When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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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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For, Yes, he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
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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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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.
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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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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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