Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.


Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)

Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn...

Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn...

Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn...

Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn...