Quotes from Robin Hobb

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

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.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

But a living is not a life.

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

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.

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.

The challenge is always to find the good place to end the book. The rule I follow with myself is that every book should end where the next book would logically begin. I know that some readers wish that literally all of the threads would be neatly tied off and snipped, but life just doesn't work that way.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

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

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

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 favorite shelves.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

I think it was always okay to be a geek.