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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
Every
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Characters
Writer
Story
Actually
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Character

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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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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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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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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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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
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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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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
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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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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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Cats talk to whomever they please.
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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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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
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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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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
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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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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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There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.
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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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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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