Robin Hobb

“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True c...”

“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. 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 you...”

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”

“I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”

“That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.”

“Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?' 'No. Just stupid.' 'Ah. Nothing new there. Well,...”

“Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?”

“Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.”

“Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabbit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones an...”

“If you want the game, you must stalk it. That is all. You cannot say, To stalk this takes too long, I wish to simply eat. It is all one. The stalking is the beginning of the eating.”

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own smal...”

“One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.”

“Surprise!-FitzChivalry”

“I think ever since I started to read, there have been favorite novels for different stages of my life. And one is never bumped out of place to yield to another. Instead, I just add to my fav...”

“Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer...”

“Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.”

“Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper a...”

“Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. I always say that I have more questions than answers.”