Patrick Rothfuss Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Reading, Roots

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

• Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Relationship, Book, Female

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.133, Penguin

• Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Fine, Handle

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.202, Hachette UK

• It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, People, Twenties

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.54, Hachette UK

• Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Flower, Book

• There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Doors, Two

• On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wall, Book, Winning

• Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Blood, Long

• Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Night, People

• There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely essential to tell the story, it would be butchery. The end result would horrify you. Essential is the bones of the story, but the soul lives somewhere else.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Somewhere Else, Differences

• We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Needs, Share

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Book, Half

• I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Self, Rejection

• Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted, or transferred to a different job somewhere else. It sucks for the author because suddenly the person who liked your book enough to buy it isn't around to help you edit and promote it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Book, Mean

  Source: aidanmoher.com

• If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, Book, Writing

• It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But honestly, those folks are lucky as lottery winners.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Mean, Self

• Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  Source: aidanmoher.com

• I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Want, Know How

• Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Drama, Book, Important

• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Years, Long

• Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Book, Reading

• For people who don't know, the fundraiser works like this: people donate to Worldbuilders and they're automatically entered to win geeky swag in the lottery. We're just starting week two and we're already giving away more than $40,000 of books and games.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Winning, Swag

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

• My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Winning, Horizon

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

• Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, People, Pissed Off

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