Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
- The best lies about me are the ones I told.
- But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.
- A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection
- There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There…
- Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that…
- It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
- But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
- One of my favorite artists on Deviantart.
- One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
- It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.
- I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy.…
- It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't…
- The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.
- I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful…
- As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.
- The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.
- I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
- The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
- I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.
- I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.