Patrick Rothfuss Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Swimming, Sharks

• 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.

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Notes, Name Of The Wind

• 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 if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Paul Goat Allen, www.publishersweekly.com. January 31, 2011.

• 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

• Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Racism, Scary

• I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reading, Boys, Joy

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

• I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  War, Reading, I Love Him

  Source: aidanmoher.com

• Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Reading, Emotional

  Source: nerdbastards.com

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