"The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing. "
— Robin Hobb

"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead."
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice)

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

"Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
Royal Assassin"
— Robin Hobb

"Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power."
— Robin Hobb

"The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will"
— Robin Hobb (Royal Assassin)

"History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took."
— Robin Hobb

"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."
— Robin Hobb

""It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer"
— Robin Hobb

"How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?"
— Robin Hobb (Shaman's Crossing)

"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."
— Robin Hobb (Ship of Destiny)

"That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
"
— Robin Hobb (Ship of Destiny)

"One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future."
— Robin Hobb (Ship of Magic)

"For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong."
— Robin Hobb (Ship of Magic)

"All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day.
-Fitz

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
-Chade

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
-Burrich

We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life.
-Fitz"
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice)

"It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance."
— Robin Hobb (Forest Mage)

"Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?"
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Quest)

"Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice."
— Robin Hobb (Fool's Errand)

"My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man."
— Robin Hobb (Shaman's Crossing)

"A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough."
— Robin Hobb (Shaman's Crossing)

"It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?"
— Robin Hobb (Renegade's Magic)

"Surprise!-FitzChivalry

"
— Robin Hobb (Royal Assassin)

"One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it."
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice)