If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe..

I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing t….

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it..

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself..

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it..

I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so lo….

Practice makes the master..

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it..

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking..

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep..

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twe….

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be..

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun..

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire..

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind..

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb..

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader..

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me..

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his a….

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves..