Patrick Rothfuss Quotes - Page 16

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• 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

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• 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

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• If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood used to fill 400 years ago, then you have the freedom to ignore the pointless "what is literature" discussion and just talk about stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Doors, Years, Realize Things

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• That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stories, Matter, Ends

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• Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Deals, Expected, Bits

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• When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving, Pieces, Dues

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.323, Penguin

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