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It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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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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Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
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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.
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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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I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
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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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There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
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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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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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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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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
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I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.
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Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
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After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
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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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Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
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I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, Wil said. And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.
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Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
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