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Patrick Rothfuss Inspirational Quotes (218)

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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.
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Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's help. I play videogames, and lately it's hard for me to enjoy them because I'm spending all my time cringing at the corny dialogue, thin characters, and glaring plot holes.
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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons. Bast smiled a terrible smile. There is only my kind. Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
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It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
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You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
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It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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I'm kind of balanced between excited about the potential of the project, and the knowledge that I shouldn't get my hopes up. I like to be practical, and the truth is, these deals fall apart all the time.
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.
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