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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Robin Hobb Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do. Robin Hobb Read Quote
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. Robin Hobb Read Quote
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. Robin Hobb Read Quote
I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done. Robin Hobb Read Quote
