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 must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

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

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

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

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

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 before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

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 must be looking nervously over their shoulders!