Quotes of Robin McKinley - somelinesforyou

“ I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ The big difference between my mom and me besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magichandling freak is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's points of view, but she's honest about it. She's a brassbound bitch because she believes she knows best. I'm a brassbound bitch because I don't want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in townthe super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like themand put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ The story is always better than your ability to write it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper. (And if you ever think otherwise, then you've turned into an arrogant selfsatisfied prat, and should look for another job or another avocation or another weekend activity.) So you have to learn to live with the fact that you're never going to write well enough. Of course that's what keeps you trying trying as hard as you can which is a good thing. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of whitewater rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literalminded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when I'm not telling stories have always been pretty threedimensional. I used to say that the only strong attraction reality ever had for me was horses and horseback riding, but I've also been cooking and going for long walks since I was a kid (yes, the two are related), and I'm getting even more three dimensionally biased as I get older — gardening, bell ringing... piano playing... And the stories I seem to need to write seem to need that kind of nourishment from me — how you feed your story telling varies from writer to writer. My storytelling faculty needs realworld fresh air and experiences that create calluses (and sometimes bruises). ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices won't unduly disturb anyone. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices won't unduly disturb anyone. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I took my son to college. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices won't unduly disturb anyone. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I took my son to college. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I took my son to college. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices won't unduly disturb anyone. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices won't unduly disturb anyone. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley

“ But if it would have been a vacation, we wouldn't have made it. ”

- Robin McKinley
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