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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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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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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.
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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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If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
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With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.
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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
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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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This is the nature of love. Vashet said. To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done.
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And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.
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When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.
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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.
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