Frasi di Patrick Rothfuss

Variante: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Origine: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Contesto: “All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

„There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro Il nome del vento

Origine: The Name of the Wind

„Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro La paura del saggio

Origine: The Wise Man's Fear

„Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man’s will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro Il nome del vento

Origine: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 86, “The Fire Itself” (pp. 672-673)

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

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro La paura del saggio

Origine: The Wise Man's Fear

„I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro Il nome del vento

Origine: The Name of the Wind

„Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss, libro La paura del saggio

Origine: The Wise Man's Fear

„I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.“

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— Patrick Rothfuss

Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Contesto: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.