1,055 Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

I opened my mouth. Then closed it, deciding this was probably not the right time for questions. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

I’m not a stereotypical professor type. I don’t smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I’m more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that’s lacking in our regular lives.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I’d stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man’s title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.” Sleat gave a lazy.

I’d love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren’t being taken advantage of in that field. I’d like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

It is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of music. Sometimes a man enjoys a symphony. Elsetimes he finds a jig more suited to his taste. The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

She’s obviously stupid for you. And you’re just plain stupid, so it’s a great match.