1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

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.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don’t fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

You’re important with your green eyes looking at me like I mean something. It’s okay that you have better things to do. It’s enough that I get you sometimes. Once in a while. I know I’m lucky for that, to get you just a little.

Bast said. “The truth is deeper than that. It’s... ” Bast floundered for a moment. “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

The way I cook it’s more like mad science. There’s a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

Congratulations, he said. “That was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. “Ever.

It’s hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

A blind man has to stumble through a cluttered room. You don’t. You use your eyes and pick the easy way.

The sweet smile of a young woman. There is nothing better in the world. It is worth more than salt. Something in us sickens and dies without it. I am sure of this. Such a simple thing. How strange. How wonderful and strange.