Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

I'm a firm supporter of the word polyamory. But that one is close to my heart.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

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 clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

We all become what we pretend to be.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

We are more than the parts that form us.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

Science is just magic with better PR.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.