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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.

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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How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
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You know, I could have carried you.
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless what is literature discussion and just talk about stories.
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I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.
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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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There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
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Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear.
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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
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It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
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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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Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.
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But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
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