Rothfuss Book Quotes

#1. Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

Pope Francis

#2. Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Be grateful for the grace of a new day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who take the time to consume it? Am I contributing in a positive way to the overall kind of collective consciousness of people in the world? I worry about that.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

Doris Humphrey

#12. If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. I hate it when I have to wait the next book in a series to come out.
Don't you hate it when you have to wait for the next book in a series to come out?

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person.

Richard Preston

#15. There is only one driving force: The desire.

Aristotle.

#16. Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place. It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

Patrick Rothfuss

#21. True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

Timothy Keller

#22. Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

Ashley Tisdale