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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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All stories are true.
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Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
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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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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass. I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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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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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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Small facts lead to great knowing.
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Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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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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You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
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I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
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Science is just magic with better PR.
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I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
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There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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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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