Years Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

— 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

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going…

— 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

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for…

— 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

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate…

— 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

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

If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate.…

— Patrick Rothfuss