It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“«Siempre he preferido las noches sin luna. A oscuras es más fácil hablar. Es más fácil ser uno mismo» —Denna.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well...… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
“Prefiero tocar canciones que divierten a mis amigos que complacer a quienes me juzgan basándose solo en habladurías" - Kvothe” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
“Wilem snorted."That doesn't sound suspicious at all," he said. "And you wonder why people talk about you." "I don't wonder why they talk," I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
“The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving books you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
