Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — 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
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — 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
Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational… — 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
If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now. — 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
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like… — 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
