Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I'm a cliche.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

I feel like a cliche.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

It's intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that's actually original. I think that's why I love 'Stranger Things,' because it's not just horror, it's everything, and when they use horror it's right.

When I'm happy and everything's great, I'm not creative at all.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.