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I learned to love the feel of good words.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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If you fall, you fall, Elodin shrugged. Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.
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There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth. Vashet smiled lazily. And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me. She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
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What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
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It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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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.
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Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.
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He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
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“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”
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