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.
gloves fists velvet
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
pigs tomorrow get-up
Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?
opposites choices speak
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.
short-life past feelings
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.
plans anticipate
One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
confusing and-love plumbing
You are confusing plumbing and love again.
sticks fishes
You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick
ignorant danger
the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
wrong-or-right teach i-can
learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.
loneliness two saws
Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.
warrior dragons quests
No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest
effort fiction human reading
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.