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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Fortitude
Spine
Lack
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Testicular
Requisite

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With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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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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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
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I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
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Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
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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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I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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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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Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.
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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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When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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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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