“I took the time to fret uselessly about things I had no control over.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I’ve waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are,” I said.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“We talked about who we liked in the University, but more time was spent mulling over who we didn’t like, and why,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober either. Our exact positioning between these… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Celean looked at me for a moment, the hint of a serious line between her pale eyebrows. Then she laughed brightly and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It's easy to forget when you're around." She stopped walking for a moment and I had to stop too, as she'd linked… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend… — 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 remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half (of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large,” Uresh said in his… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time,” I began. “There was a little boy born in a little town. He was perfect, or so his… — 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
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you… — 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
“It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost in… — 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
“Kvothe looked at Bast for a long moment. “Oh Bast,” he said softly to his student. His smile was gentle and sad.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I… — 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
