Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant,"… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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 sick."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for God in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic—in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“And...how much are we getting paid for achieving the impossible?” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elantris was the one place where she could remember feeling unconditional acceptance. She had not been a princess, she had been something far better… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Elend smiled. "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“That is always how it is, though, isn't it?” Shuden asked. “Those who can least afford extravagance seem to be the ones most determined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“He says he’s letting the Stormfather judge you,” Moash added. “Jezerezeh, king of Heralds. He says that if you deserve to live, you will….”… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The stories say the Nightwatcher might be capable of that. . . . Powerful spren. Vast spren.’ ‘Is he calling me vast?’ Syl said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
