Patrick Rothfuss quote: "Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, pero lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él. Con Denna pasaba lo mismo."

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial....
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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 m...
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we...
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure...
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost s...
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I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, hea...
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution tha...
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna ...
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the differ...
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become co...
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's modera...
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while some...
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you s...
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what ...
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and ...
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good ...
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I...
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and yo...
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the...
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all ...
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Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...
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A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid:
Once for a simple trade.
Twice for freely given aid.
...
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That’s one of the best things about horror movies – they’re not real life. They’re like emot...
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Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossib...
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
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The best lies about me are the ones I told.
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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a...
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I’d heard you were dead.”
"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. ...
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It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ...
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I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have s...
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Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But ...
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After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reachi...
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Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enoug...
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Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.
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She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cauti...
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Then the high king carefully turned the golden screw. Once: Nothing. Twice: Nothing. Then he turned ...
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves...
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I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...
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Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man h...
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It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of...
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Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...
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I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri...
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It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re stil...
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they could...
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Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi.
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Once upon a time,” I began. “There was a little boy born in a little town. He was perfect, or so...
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If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
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Auri hopped down from the chimney and skipped over to where I stood, her hair streaming behind her. ...
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If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look ther...
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I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that think...
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I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.
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Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when ...
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Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed ...
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She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self i...
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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
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There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, tr...
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I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have th...
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Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
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No, listen. I've got it now. You meet a girl: shy, unassuming. If you tell her she's beautiful, she'...
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It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love....
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Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sw...
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A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her...
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Mira, las mujeres son como el fuego, como las llamas. Algunas son como velas, luminosas e inofensiva...
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You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
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I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so th...
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Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightn...
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Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last h...
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Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced;...
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while somethin...
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When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as de...
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What use is care? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. ...
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All the truth in the world is held in stories.
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I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...
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But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
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We all become what we pretend to be.
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She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the w...
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You did not want things for yourself. That made you small.
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Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do.
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...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too youn...
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
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It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.
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I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be ...
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She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...
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I learned to love the feel of good words.
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I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to hers...
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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Some days simply lay on you like stones.
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Absence feeds affection.
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Teccam explains there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the he...
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I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I...
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My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "quothe." Names are important as they tell you a gr...
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It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ...
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Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When...
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I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sigh...
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When the hearthfire turns to blue,
what to do? what to do?
run outside, run and hide
...
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Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable com...
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You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
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I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no co...
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You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
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It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is tha...
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It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
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Chronicler shook his head and Bast gave a frustrated sigh. "How about plays? Have you seen The Gh...
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Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, pero lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él. Con Denna pasaba lo mismo.

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