1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

All stories are true.

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.