Patrick Rothfuss citáty

Patrick Rothfuss - chýba nám detailnejší popis autora.

✵ 6. jún 1973
Patrick Rothfuss fotka
Patrick Rothfuss: 236   citátov 0   Páči sa

Patrick Rothfuss: Citáty v angličtine

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear

“Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“Anyone can love a thing. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Kontext: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear

“I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.”

Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Kontext: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.

“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Zdroj: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Varianta: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Zdroj: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Kontext: “All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

“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 kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Varianta: We all become what we pretend to be.
Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Wise Man's Fear

Zdroj: The Wise Man's Fear

“The best lies about me are the onestold.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”

Patrick Rothfuss kniha The Name of the Wind

Zdroj: The Name of the Wind

“My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.”

On the progress of The Wise Man's Fear in "Concerning the Release of Book Two" (26 February 2009) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2009/02/concerning-the-release-of-book-two/
Official site
Kontext: My book is different.
In case you hadn't noticed, the story I'm telling is a little different. It's a little shy on the Aristotelian unities. It doesn't follow the classic Hollywood three-act structure. It's not like a five-act Shakespearean play. It's not like a Harlequin romance.
So what *is* the structure then? Fuck if I know. That's part of what's taking me so long to figure out. As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. If I get it right, I get something like The Name of the Wind. Something that makes all of us happy.
But if I fuck it up, I'll end up with a confusing tangled mess of a story.
Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm unique in this. That I'm some lone pioneer mapping the uncharted storylands. Other authors do it too. My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to write a that sort of book. It would be nice to be able to use those well-established structures like a sort of recipe. A map. A paint-by-numbers kit.
It would be so much easier, and quicker. But it wouldn't be a better book. And it's not really the sort of book I want to write.

“As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go.”

On the progress of The Wise Man's Fear in "Concerning the Release of Book Two" (26 February 2009) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2009/02/concerning-the-release-of-book-two/
Official site
Kontext: My book is different.
In case you hadn't noticed, the story I'm telling is a little different. It's a little shy on the Aristotelian unities. It doesn't follow the classic Hollywood three-act structure. It's not like a five-act Shakespearean play. It's not like a Harlequin romance.
So what *is* the structure then? Fuck if I know. That's part of what's taking me so long to figure out. As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. If I get it right, I get something like The Name of the Wind. Something that makes all of us happy.
But if I fuck it up, I'll end up with a confusing tangled mess of a story.
Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm unique in this. That I'm some lone pioneer mapping the uncharted storylands. Other authors do it too. My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to write a that sort of book. It would be nice to be able to use those well-established structures like a sort of recipe. A map. A paint-by-numbers kit.
It would be so much easier, and quicker. But it wouldn't be a better book. And it's not really the sort of book I want to write.

“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.”

Interview in Publisher Weekly in 2011 http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/45944-exploring-the-edge-of-the-fantasy-map-pw-talks-with-patrick-rothfuss.html
Kontext: Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means 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.