727 Quotes by Robin Hobb

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

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.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

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

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

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

I think it was always okay to be a geek.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

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?