Robin Hobb Quotes

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• I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
• I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I…
• I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you…
• I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
• Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
• Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive…
• The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
• When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
• Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
• Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage…
• 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…
• 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.…
• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling…
• I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
• Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
• Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
• Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
• 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…
• Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
• Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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