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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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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
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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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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.
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.
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Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, You don't sound as young as you look. I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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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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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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All stories are true.
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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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The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
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I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's help. I play videogames, and lately it's hard for me to enjoy them because I'm spending all my time cringing at the corny dialogue, thin characters, and glaring plot holes.
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I’d heard you were dead.” I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
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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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There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
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I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.
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