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Robin McKinley is an American children's literature author known for her modern interpretations of myths and legends. Her works, rich in imagination and deep emotion, have won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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All Ifs Said Littles Beauty Knows Thinking Writing Firsts Looks Want

Famous Robin McKinley Quotes

“Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.”

Littles Attitude

Author:Robin McKinley

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

Stars Love You Lovers Threat Usual Idle Parting

Book:The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

“Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.”

Knows Needs Wish Hurt

Author:Robin McKinley

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

My Own Answers Color

Book:The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Hero and the Crown

“Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?”

Believe Wells Lasts Beautiful Night Water Numbers Bears Quiet Mirrors Beast Believe In Me Last Night Ponds

Author:Robin McKinley

“For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.”

Ifs Giving Writing Reading Energy Chance Meant To Be Crucial Storyteller Feeding Reading And Writing

Author:Robin McKinley

“The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Done Stories Belief Justice Ability

Author:Robin McKinley

“Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.”

Ifs Knows World Want Writing Persons Chance This World Reader Excited What You Want Excitement Listen To Yourself

Author:Robin McKinley

“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. 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.”

Made Said Ends Feelings Earth Easy Dark Sun Mystery Grew Balance Shadow Roots Sight Rose Made It Slips Visionaries

Author: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.”

Facts Stories Moving Wonderful Becoming Paper Obstacles Manage Fascinating Biggest Obstacles

Author:Robin McKinley

“But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.”

Want Cutting Hair Return Promise Including Various Desperate Negotiation Eyelashes Supposing Rosie Hair Cut Desperate Measures

Author:Robin McKinley

“I long for another human face just as I fear it.”

Humans Long Faces Human Faces

Book:Deerskin

Source: Deerskin

About the Author

Born: November 16, 1952
Known for: Author
Quotes: 162

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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the BeastRelated source material

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