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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
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Characters
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Story
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Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
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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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Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
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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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One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
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Silent, the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
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But a living is not a life.
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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
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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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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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