“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my… — 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
“I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?' 'Lucky?' Denna suggested. 'Tired?… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.” Bast nodded eagerly at this,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously. "I've been rather busy," I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Apparently the soft cheese I'd been served possessed a rind.A rind any civilized person would have recognized as inedible and meant to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I even started a few rumors that were pure nonsense, lies so outrageous that people would repeat them despite the fact that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Kvothe continued, smiling himself “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The Lethani is the same everywhere,” she said firmly. “It is not like the wind, changing from place to place.” “The Lethani… — 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
