Patrick Rothfuss Quotes - Page 9

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• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Sleep, Want

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• 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.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Speed, Ends

  "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hurt, Passion, Ignorance

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.877, Penguin

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• For most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Two, People, Thieves

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.127, Hachette UK

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stories, Walks, Folks

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Names, Firsts, Masters

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• 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 makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Witty, Clever, Writing

  "Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book". www.wired.com. October 25, 2014.

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Flower, Cutting, Men

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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• The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Brain, Teeth

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.121, Penguin

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• Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that." "Gristly?" I asked, emphasizing the 't.' "Don't you mean grisly?" "Both," he said. "Usually there's a lot of, 'I'll break your knees. I'll break your neck.'" He shrugged. "Makes me think of gristle, like when you're boning a chicken.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Thinking, Knees

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.109, Penguin

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• 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 slow-rolling swell of the sea. I have watched old soldiers with hearts like leather grow teary-eyed at their king's colors stretched against the wind. Listen to me: these men know nothing of love. You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Lying, Love You

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.56, Penguin

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• He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Math, Class, Taught

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Play, Strings, Name Of The Wind

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• Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fearless, Fool, Priests

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• 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 my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Hands, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ignorance, Problem

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is the worst job that I've ever had. Because it's so much more important to me and there's so much more opportunity for failure and I have so many people depending on me. In some ways it's the most satisfying, the most gratifying, and the most rewarding job I've ever had. But I actually would say it's probably the worst job I've ever had too.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Name Of The Wind, Uncouth, Courses

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I was just wondering why you're here.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wonder

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• Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Half, World, Lord

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.243, Penguin

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• I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

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  Moving, Apples, Drawing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.344, Penguin

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• There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Men, Enemy, Camaraderie

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• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,
  Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.
  There were rings unseen on his second hand,
  One was blood in a flowing band,
  One was air all whisper thin,
  And the ring of ice had a flaw within.
  Full faintly shone the ring of flame,
  And the final ring was without name.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Iron, Air, Flames

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, 2011.

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• In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Grateful, Mean, Simple

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• It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Permission, Exciting, Knows

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.444, Penguin

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