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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

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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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
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It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
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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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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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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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We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.
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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 grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
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Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.
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If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
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Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.
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I learned to love the feel of good words.
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I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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