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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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.
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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
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You know, I could have carried you.
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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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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
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I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, Wil said. And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.
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He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curious than accusatory. “No,” Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. “I’ve been tasting,” Bast said, emphasizing the word. “Tasting comes before drinking.
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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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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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I'm kind of balanced between excited about the potential of the project, and the knowledge that I shouldn't get my hopes up. I like to be practical, and the truth is, these deals fall apart all the time.
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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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You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
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It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.
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