For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

Practice makes the master.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.