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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.
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I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
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There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.
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Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
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Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
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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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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
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It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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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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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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