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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just putting it out there for people to see. If people think this is cool, I'm hoping they'll tell their friends.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”
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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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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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If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever. He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. That, he said firmly to the room in general, is what comes of working with iron every day.
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...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
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I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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All stories are true, Skarpi said. But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
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If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.
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He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
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What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.
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