Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss

…hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don’t. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Believe

Giving

Lying

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…if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Children

Heart

Shadow

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…it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

Heart

Poison

Secret

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…nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Convincing

Harder

World

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“I will admit, I’ve never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he’s worth my time.” “This was nothing… Once I jumped off a roof.”

Order

Roof

Vicious

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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?

Names

Smoking

Thinking

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A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Long

Quiet

Years

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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.

Beautiful

Somewhere Else

Thinking

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A poet is a musician who can’t sing.

Musician

Poet

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A tree doesn’t make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning’s going to strike.

Fool

Lightning

Tree

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