Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind mu….

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too..

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?.

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the….

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel progr….

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what h….

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that parag….

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to..

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people..

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought..

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is..

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every o….

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die..

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets..

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go….

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on..

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life..

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining b….

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature..

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up..

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that..