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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
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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 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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You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
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Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.
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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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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
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The desire for knowledge shapes a man.
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I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.
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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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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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Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.
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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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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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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 have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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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.
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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