Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

About Brandon Sanderson:

Brandon Sanderson is an American writer. He is best known for his Mistborn series and his work in finishing Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. In 2010, Sanderson published The Way of Kings, the first of a ten book series called The Stormlight Archive.
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The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

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If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

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Expectation. is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.

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Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist.

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Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

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Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

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Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

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Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

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It is beautiful because it have been. It should have been.

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Words are where most change begins.

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Brightness,” the man said as she stepped up to him, “we aren't what you think we are.” “No,” Shallan replied. “You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

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Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

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A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

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Progress is learning to control your world.

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You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

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Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

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[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

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For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

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a cheerful voice said in his mind.

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Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

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I have to say, old friend, you were supposed to help train her, not drop her off a cliff.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrandon Sanderson
  • DescriptionAmerican fantasy writer
  • BornDecember 19, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksElantris; Warbreaker; Mistborn Series; The Stormlight Archive; The Reckoners; Rithmatist Series; Legion Series