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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
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Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
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Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.
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Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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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 no balance. My life is a hot mess.
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When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
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You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
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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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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
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He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
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In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.
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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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My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.
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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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I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.
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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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