I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender." Patrick Rothfuss More Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss More Quotes From Patrick Rothfuss The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them. Patrick Rothfuss truth-is jobs people 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 long book years The world is a mess and I just need to rule it. Patrick Rothfuss villain world needs I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel. Patrick Rothfuss our-world cutting eye 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 speed ends writing 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 want sleep character 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 passion ignorance hurt 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. Patrick Rothfuss song fun thinking 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 folks walks stories I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there. Patrick Rothfuss excellent skills You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me. Patrick Rothfuss flower wise moving Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish. Patrick Rothfuss clever kids children Feel free to call me by my first name: Master. Patrick Rothfuss masters names firsts 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 clever writing witty The desire for knowledge shapes a man. Patrick Rothfuss shapes desire men She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a little more flair." "Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home," she said. "You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant. Patrick Rothfuss home ideas thinking Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud? Patrick Rothfuss proud want Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine. Patrick Rothfuss fine handle 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 doors two book The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up. Patrick Rothfuss growing-up girl boys
