Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I always try to do something different and creative with my dress sense.
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Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
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My dad brought me up to be a good person.
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I stand behind everything I've done.
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
