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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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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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