Patrick Rothfuss Way Quotations

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other is to lend.