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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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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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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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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.
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Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.
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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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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.
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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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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 don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.
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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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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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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
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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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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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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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