The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green… — 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
“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For people who don't know, the fundraiser works like this: people donate to Worldbuilders and they're automatically entered to win geeky swag… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of overt marketing. I'd much rather just put things out there for people to see. I'm just… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going… — 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
