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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
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.
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We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.
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...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.
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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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You know, I could have carried you.
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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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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.
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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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You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons. Bast smiled a terrible smile. There is only my kind. Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
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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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