Want Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

— Brandon Sanderson

“I don't care what it takes. I'm tired of being pretty and nice...I want to DO something.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant,"…

— Brandon Sanderson

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to…

— Brandon Sanderson

“What do you know?” “Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.” “What do you want,…

— Brandon Sanderson

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But,…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

— Brandon Sanderson