Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I loved fantasy role play.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.