Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

If it were easy it would have happened already.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

A difficulty for every solution.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

Interviewing people is hard.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

The right way is the hard way.