Writing Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

— Brandon Sanderson

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Brandon Sanderson

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Though I believe it's beyond the power of any mortal to completely relieve my prose of typos.”

— Brandon Sanderson

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

— Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

— Brandon Sanderson

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

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

“You can’t always write what you know—not exactly what you know. You can, however, write what you see.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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

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

— Brandon Sanderson

“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)”

— Brandon Sanderson

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic…

— Brandon Sanderson

“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

“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

“I spent years in a graduate literature program learning what makes great writing, and the only conclusion we came to was that…

— Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is…

— 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

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have…

— Brandon Sanderson

“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