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All stories are true.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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'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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There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
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I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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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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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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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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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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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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Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
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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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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.
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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.
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