Robin Hobb Quotes

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role because, of course, it's really not me.

'Beautiful' was something that I kept really close to my heart, that I kept from a lot of people for years and years. It's my story. And I think that was the first impression I needed to give to people as a solo artist. This is who I am; this is what I'm about.

The ideas that you find funny and the things that you are offering to an audience are tied up with who you are and your soul and your heart.

I'm not what I make.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.