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You know, I could have carried you.

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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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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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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
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Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.
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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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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.
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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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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
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