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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[…] What's wrong with her?" "Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.

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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

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We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

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In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

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Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

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Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

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What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, ...

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Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

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To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

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You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.” “Er…yes?” He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

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Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is n...

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Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

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He wasn't avoiding responsibility... Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch. Apathy. The belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a ma...

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He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

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Kaladin walked, feeling numb. He’d thought that there was nothing more life could do to him, nothing worse than the slave’s brand with a shash, nothing worse than losing all he had to the war, nothing more terrible than failing those he’d sworn...

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Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

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I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

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One can have a wit, but not a witless

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This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit." "Yes, He tasted quite delicious.

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Does the king know you're back?" "Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence." "That sounds… hard." "Yeah, the storming things have real tr...

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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