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What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.
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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Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, What if...? That's my favorite question.
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.
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It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
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There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
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A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.
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Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
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There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
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That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.
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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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If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.
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Science is just magic with better PR.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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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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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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That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
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