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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He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

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A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

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...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

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A leader is often judged by how well he bears responsibility. As king, everything that happens in your kingdom - regardless of who commits the act -is your fault.

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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you ...

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What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you ...

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Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.

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Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong." "But the determines what is right!" "Must someone, some unseen , declare what is right for it to right? I believe that my own mora...

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Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said. "She is a heretic." "She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in thei...

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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. Yo...

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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so poten...

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Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

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Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" ...

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Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable th...

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It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

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Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like... well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural.

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Has no one done my son a service and assassinated you yet?" "No assassins yet," Wit said, amused. "I guess I've already got too much ass sass of my own."..."Oh really, Wit" she said. "I thought that kind of humour was beneath you." "So are you techni...

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Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

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Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

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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