Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is a pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American writer. She is best known for the books set in the Realm of the Elderlings, which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin's Apprentice, the first book in the Farseer trilogy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 March 1952
CityBerkeley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
novels
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.
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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, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'
began fantasy passion reading time
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
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I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.
fantasy simply writers
I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.
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I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?
mistake risk path
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
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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 and get to work.
giants lots
Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.
ease today poison
Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
silence tongue asks
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
journey yesterday goes-on
Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.
gloves fists velvet
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
yesterday tomorrow
Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.