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Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

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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I'm kind of balanced between excited about the potential of the project, and the knowledge that I shouldn't get my hopes up. I like to be practical, and the truth is, these deals fall apart all the time.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.
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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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...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
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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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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.
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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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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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Science is just magic with better PR.
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It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
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I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?
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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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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
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Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
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