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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

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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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I don't speak fluent bumpkin.
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Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.
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Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.
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I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.
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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
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It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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Science is just magic with better PR.
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All stories are true.
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There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational discipline. Religion, on the other hand, is fundamentally trans-rational. Both of them attempt to solve problems, but since their methodology is vastly different, they can't help but come into conflict.
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I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
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Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.
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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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The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
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