Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
Someone’s parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.
I believe a writer’s most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.
Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.
I don’t speak fluent bumpkin...
There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.
It’s my opinion that if you’re trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can’t help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.
The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.
It’s hard for me to take myself too seriously when I’m constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.
I’ve never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. “He’s X big and Y long,” As if the baby is a fish you’re not sure you’re going to keep. Or some prize potato you’re hoping will win a prize at the county fair.
If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
My thought is, if you’re a book lover, you’re going to enjoy winning a book even if it’s not something you’d ordinarily pick up on your own. It’s a chance to expand your horizons a little.
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
All the truth in the world is held in stories.
All stories are true.
You can’t write good characters if you can’t imagine what it’s like being in another person’s skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people’s lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what’s being written in my genre, let’s not lie. But that’s not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I’d probably just die.
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.