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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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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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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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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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The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
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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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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
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And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
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I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
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I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
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You never do things the easy way, do you? she said. There's an easy way? I asked.
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