Patrick Rothfuss

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music…

— 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

“Prefiero tocar canciones que divierten a mis amigos que complacer a quienes me juzgan basándose solo en habladurías" - Kvothe”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“You can´t prove nonexistence".”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“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…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an…

— Patrick Rothfuss

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

— Patrick Rothfuss

Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

“I wish I felt as calm as I look”

— Patrick Rothfuss

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Anyone can love a thing because . That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite…

— Patrick Rothfuss

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the…

— Patrick Rothfuss