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 one of them.

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!

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

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

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 paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

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