Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

All I have is a voice.