Famous Quotes

"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."

Patrick Rothfuss on Famous

More quotes about Famous

• "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

  Andy Warhol on Famous

• "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

  Walt Disney on Famous

• "What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

  Voltaire on Famous

• "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous

• "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

  Ambrose Bierce on Famous

More quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."