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Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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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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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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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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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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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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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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Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.
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I guess I'm destined to be loveless
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
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Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.
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Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
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I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.
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It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.
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Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
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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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I’d heard you were dead.” I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.
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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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Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
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I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever. He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. That, he said firmly to the room in general, is what comes of working with iron every day.
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