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For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
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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There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
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There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.
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If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
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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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You may have heard of me.
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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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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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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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Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.
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Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
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You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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Joss [Whedon] is an excellent storyteller. It really doesn't matter what medium he's working in.
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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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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
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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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