10 Robin Hobb Quotes for You to Enjoy

Robin Hobb

American Writer

Born: Mar 5, 1952

Always Book People Think World Writing

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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.' Robin Hobb

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I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done. Robin Hobb

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I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy. Robin Hobb

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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. Robin Hobb

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out. Robin Hobb

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At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'? Robin Hobb

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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? Robin Hobb

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. Robin Hobb

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