The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.