If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.


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No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
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Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
—No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Die großartigste Fähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes ist vielleicht die, mit Schmerzen fertig zu we...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
-Una vez, uno de los maestros de la Universidad me dijo que había siete palabras que hacían que un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Las palabras no siempre pueden hacer el trabajo para el que las necesitamos. La música existe para ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
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Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
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She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
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Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
M...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
M...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.
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Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.
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Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur
Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten.
Yet fa...
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Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c...
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Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.
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How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
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For all that she lacked your fire.
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Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
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She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
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in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
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...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
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Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
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Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
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Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
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Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
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Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
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Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
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I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
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