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Brandon Sanderson

(1975) Novelist United States

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Brandon Sanderson is a novelist from the United States, best known for The Final Empire.

Quick Facts About Brandon Sanderson

Born: December 19, 1975
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: The Final Empire
Known for: Mistborn, Elantris, The Stormlight Archive, Warbreaker, Legion series

About Brandon Sanderson

He has also written several young‑adult and juvenile series such as The Reckoners, the Skyward series, and the Alcatraz series. Sanderson completed Robert Jordan’s unfinished Wheel of Time novels after Jordan’s death. In addition, he created two graphic novels, White Sand and Dark One.

Awards & Honors

Hugo Award for Best Novella Hugo Award for Best Related Work Whitney Awards Audie Award for Fantasy Imaginales award for best foreign-language novel Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel

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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

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Foolishness

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“Silence spread from him like a bad smell.”

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Silence

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“That's because you're a man. Actually, I'm a kandra.”

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Oh, I’m just a happy person.

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“Adolin started. “What?” “I didn’t”

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“A book lives a new life every time it is read.”

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Book

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“If that loss brings learning.”

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“My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.”

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Breath

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“People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.”

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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

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Bastille

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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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“The past is irrelevant. I only look forward.” Dalinar was not certain he agreed with either statement.”

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“Your name is Lift, right?" "Right." "And your order?" "More food.”

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Food

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“For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.”

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“Can something be "almost" an accident?' Pattern asked, genuinely curious.”

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Accident

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“Never apologize for being clever, Shallan. It sets a bad precedent.”

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Clever

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“I like to live every day like it's my last." Shallan nodded. "And by that I mean lying in a puddle of…

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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…

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Artist

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“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us…

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“You don't have to believe in my miracles. You can call them accidents or coincidences, if you must. But don't pity me…

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Faith

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Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony,"…

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I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and…

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Betrayal

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“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a…

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Journey

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“That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal peril every once in…

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Friend

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And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that…

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Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?”…

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“But they’re not working because someone will beat them if they don’t—they’re working so that their families and their friends won’t die.…

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Family

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One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best…

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Action

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I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his…

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Action

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“So I can but repeat what has been done before?’ “ ‘In some things, yes. You will love. You will hurt. You…

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“What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of…

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Feminism

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“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when…

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“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.”

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Hope

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“Majestic as Damnation’s own gonads,”

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Damnation

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“light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.”

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Lies

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To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

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Everyone is either happy or dead.

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“My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.”

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One can have a wit, but not a witless

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Wit

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“it’s better to be embarrassed than dead.”

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