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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
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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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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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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That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.
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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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Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.
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There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
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I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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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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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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Auri, I asked slowly, are you joking with me? She looked up and grinned. Yes I am, she said proudly. Isn't it wonderful?
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I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
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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.
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
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