Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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• Remember this, son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they…
• You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
• All stories are true.
• All the truth in the world is held in stories.
• Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard…
• I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."…
• It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
• I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that…
• Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
• The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and…
• A poet is a musician who can't sing.
• If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.
• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the…
• That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.
• If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.
• I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am…
• She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect…
• There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.
• Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
• But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical…

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