The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!'… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It's hard to look too grand when you're led by someone who looks like a pudding with legs. — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“[the sheep] sidled up beside him and bumped him lovingly with its head. Val looked at it sadly. "I am sorry, you ugly creature,"… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
