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

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

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

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

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

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