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 that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story. Robin Hobb More Quotes by Robin Hobb More Quotes From Robin Hobb ...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. Robin Hobb family-and-friendslonelysomewhere-else A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. Robin Hobb latearisebed Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. Robin Hobb uniquewritingideas 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 events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist. Robin Hobb short-lifefeelingspast My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man. Robin Hobb paymenblood When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Robin Hobb blindspringideas I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated. Robin Hobb playerwishwinning 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 think it went out with the trash the next day. Robin Hobb halloweencatwriting It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again? Robin Hobb mennightmemories Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out. Robin Hobb sittingwritinglittles Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered. Robin Hobb reunionblessingsometimes The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send. Robin Hobb fiveminutesdoubt Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin Robin Hobb assassinscomfortingthinking Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us. Robin Hobb fatespacefarewell It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you. Robin Hobb apologizinglatetoo-late 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. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops. Robin Hobb afterlifedyingmistake 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 the air with the rattle of words and anxieties. Robin Hobb anxietycommunicationair I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. Robin Hobb kindfearworld 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 can always read Shakespeare. Robin Hobb readingrunningbook Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. Robin Hobb doggrievingmen
