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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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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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I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever. He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. That, he said firmly to the room in general, is what comes of working with iron every day.
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It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.
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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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Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.
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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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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 think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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Science is just magic with better PR.
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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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I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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