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Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Words
Find
Heart
Woefully
Mind
Targets
Men
Target
Touch
Minds
Small

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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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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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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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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
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I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.
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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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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.
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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
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As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.
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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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