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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
Patrick Rothfuss
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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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I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.
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I learned to love the feel of good words.
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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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I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
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Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
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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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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
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If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
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It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me lest I fall.
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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
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If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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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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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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