“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.”

American author

Patrick James Rothfuss is an American author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle. His debut novel, The Name of the Wind, was published in 2007 and won several awards. He followed it with The Wise Man's Fear in 2011, the second book in the series, which reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list. His work is known for the fantasy world and storytelling of that series.