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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Better
Heart
Mouthful
Poison
Secret

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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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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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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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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
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Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.
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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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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between slim and slender.
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Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.
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I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
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I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
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Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, What if...? That's my favorite question.
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