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Writing Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss
- 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…
- 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…
- I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful…
- Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means…
- Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside…
- Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little…
- If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
- I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the…
- 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…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Woodrow Wilson