Robin McKinley Quotes

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• The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that…
• Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what…
• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the…
• One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in…
• But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such…
• I long for another human face just as I fear it.
• I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading…
• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA…
• I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that…
• What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA…
• The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the…
• The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
• I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what…
• ...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I…
• ...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you…
• He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
• It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
• Can't all beasts be tamed?
• But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well…
• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst…

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