Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy and college lecturer. He is best known for his projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle. Read full biography of Patrick Rothfuss →
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if... →
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the... →
A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you... →
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through... →
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the... →
I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology... →
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was... →
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her... →
You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work... →
It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick James Rothfuss (born June 6, 1973) is an American writer of epic fantasy and college lecturer. He is best known for his projected three-volume series The Kingkiller Chronicle.