Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Shapes
Fiction
Lives
Comforting
Stories
Lacking
Reason
Regular
Love
Resolution
Provide
Shape
More quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
Patrick Rothfuss
When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
Patrick Rothfuss
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
Patrick Rothfuss
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
Patrick Rothfuss
Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.
Patrick Rothfuss
I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
Patrick Rothfuss
If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the street and ask you for your autograph. But as an author? That's not something I was ready for.
Patrick Rothfuss
A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
Patrick Rothfuss
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
Patrick Rothfuss
Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.
Patrick Rothfuss
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.
Patrick Rothfuss
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.
Patrick Rothfuss
Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
Patrick Rothfuss
If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
Patrick Rothfuss
Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
Patrick Rothfuss
I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
Patrick Rothfuss
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
Patrick Rothfuss
Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.
Patrick Rothfuss
I guess I'm destined to be loveless
Patrick Rothfuss
You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
Patrick Rothfuss
