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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
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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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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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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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I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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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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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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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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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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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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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
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Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
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This is the nature of love. Vashet said. To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
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