Patrick Rothfuss quotes - page 9

I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group. (Patrick Rothfuss)
My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff. View quote
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As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other. I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. View quote
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On the rare occasion I miss the news and feel the need to absorb some fearmongering bullshit, I just drop a tab of acid and read a Lovecraft story. There's less pretense that way. View quote
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Too much honesty makes you sound insincere. View quote
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To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken. View quote
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Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi. View quote
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I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy. View quote
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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed. View quote
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Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. View quote
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This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me. (Patrick Rothfuss)
Some days simply lay on you like stones. View quote
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What use is? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be. Ithe things I look at. I am a see-er. View quote
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It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart. View quote
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I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way. View quote
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Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her. View quote
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Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while. View quote
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There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart. View quote
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I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth. View quote
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There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it. View quote
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I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed both thoughts from my mind.”. (Patrick Rothfuss)
Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, we will discuss why some things cannot be discussed. View quote
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Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn't want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath. View quote
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Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. View quote
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I scowled as loudly as I could. View quote
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