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