"The story is always better than your ability……" — Robin McKinley
"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 you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business."
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113 Quotes by Robin McKinley
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Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If…
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One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact…
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But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes.…
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I long for another human face just as I fear it.
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow…
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I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have…
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I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the…
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What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that…
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The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you…
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The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class,…
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