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.
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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…
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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…
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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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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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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…
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The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
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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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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
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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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Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
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Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
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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…
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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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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
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