If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — 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
Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to… — 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
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
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
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
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
