1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

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...

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

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.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.