Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.

Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

You know, I don't turn down autographs. I try to sign as many autographs as I can.

I never set out to be a published writer.

Giving autographs is flattering.