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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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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Stories
Mean
Really
Happened
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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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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Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.
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I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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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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Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
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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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Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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