patrick rothfuss Quotes

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

- Patrick Rothfuss

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

- Patrick Rothfuss

Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.

- Patrick Rothfuss

I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.