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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving books you love good reviews is one of the nicest things you can do for an author. What's more it's good for the entire community.
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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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Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.
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I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.
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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
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It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.
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