It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond.… — 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
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — 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
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
Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — 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 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
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
A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — 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
