I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Though I believe it's beyond the power of any mortal to completely relieve my prose of typos.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I spent years in a graduate literature program learning what makes great writing, and the only conclusion we came to was that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.” “What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.” “What does the story mean,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“For me, if I have writer’s block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and… — 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
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — 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
