Quote

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Cutting
Waiting
Dies
Sound
Men
Patient
Flower

More quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Image
Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
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.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
Denna is a wild thing, I explained. Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger back to where the title of the class was listed in fresh dark ink: Introduction to Not Being a Stupid Jackass. I sighed and penned my name in the single blank space beneath.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
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.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
Patrick Rothfuss
Image
I guess I'm destined to be loveless
Patrick Rothfuss