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I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between slim and slender.

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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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
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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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We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.
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Denna is a wild thing, I explained. Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
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I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.
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I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just putting it out there for people to see. If people think this is cool, I'm hoping they'll tell their friends.
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