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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
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It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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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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Science is just magic with better PR.
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I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.
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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
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For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
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What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.
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