Robin Hobb Quotes

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'

Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.

Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'

What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know each other and bonding over the course of the movie. And I think you're seeing a real, a literal sort of friendship growing both in us as actors and on screen as characters.