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The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
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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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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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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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
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When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.
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The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.
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I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
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What were you thinking? Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern. Coat was a long while in answering. I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.
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Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.
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Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.
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For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
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There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
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All stories are true, Skarpi said. But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.
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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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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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