Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.