Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 06. Juni 1973 |
Geburtsort | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Patrick James Rothfuss (geboren am 6. Juni 1973) ist ein amerikanischer Autor. Am bekanntesten ist er für seine geplante Trilogie The Kingkiller Chronicle, für die er mehrere Preise erhielt, darunter den Quill Award 2007 für seinen Debütroman The Name of the Wind. Die Fortsetzung, The Wise Man's Fear, stand auf der Bestsellerliste der New York Times. |
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
