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
fear world kind
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
thinking magic world
I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.
done world way
It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.
differences fool world
What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool
night promise world
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
sea hull underwater
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
camera government slowly start stories talks wider
As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.
began fantasy passion reading time
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
I think it was always okay to be a geek.
count draw exposure fairy fiction hard line mythology point science
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?
picked
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.
add bumped life novels since yield
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.
fantasy simply writers
I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.
novels
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.