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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.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
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Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.
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What were you thinking? Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.
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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
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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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Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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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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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.
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What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.
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Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?
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I don't speak fluent bumpkin.
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Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
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Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
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