Books Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

— Patrick Rothfuss

We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

— Patrick Rothfuss

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out. Don't you hate it when…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern…

— Patrick Rothfuss

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

— Patrick Rothfuss

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

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

Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

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

Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“One of the things I hear a lot from people is how they found my book, or how they’ve shared it with…

— Patrick Rothfuss

On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well...…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who…

— Patrick Rothfuss

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“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