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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
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.
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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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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
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Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, What if...? That's my favorite question.
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
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For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
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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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Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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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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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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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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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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All stories are true.
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