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
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
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your… — 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
That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain. — 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
The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well...… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“Prefiero tocar canciones que divierten a mis amigos que complacer a quienes me juzgan basándose solo en habladurías" - Kvothe” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
