Robin McKinley quotes

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. (Robin McKinley)

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

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The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.

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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.

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If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

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I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

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We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

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

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What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

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There are things you don't want to know you can do.

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Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. (Robin McKinley)

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

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Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

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Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

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I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

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People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

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The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?

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Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

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... like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

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Can't all beasts be tamed?

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But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be. (Robin McKinley)

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....

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Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. -Luthe.

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I didn't want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

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If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

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Robin McKinley

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Occupation: American Author
Born: November 16, 1952
Quotes count: 54

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