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I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

Patrick Rothfuss

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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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All stories are true, Skarpi said. But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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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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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
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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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Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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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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I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.
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If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless what is literature discussion and just talk about stories.
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I’d heard you were dead.” I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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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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Practice makes the master.
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There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
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What were you thinking? Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.
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