Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 2

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• This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fantasy, Trouble, Brevity

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• What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

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  Belief, Ifs

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.710, Macmillan

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• Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

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  School, Hard Times, Practice

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “The Rithmatist”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

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  Responsibility, Brain, Disease

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

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  Leadership, Two, Interesting

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.148, Macmillan

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• You could be writing the book that changes your life.

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  Book, Writing, Changing Your Life

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• Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

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  Stress, Mean, Satisfaction In Life

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• In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

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  Men, Important, Almighty

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.831, Macmillan

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• People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

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  Passion, Sacrifice, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1877, Macmillan

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• I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

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  Personality, Immaturity

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.217, Macmillan

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• Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

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  Book, Thinking, Research

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.462, Macmillan

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• Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

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  Life, Expectations, Cracks

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.48, Macmillan

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• We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

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  People, Gains, Code

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1909, Macmillan

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• Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

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  Mean, Victory, Important

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

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  Belief, Should, Strongest

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.485, Macmillan

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• Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

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  Boys, Talking, Years

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.108, Macmillan

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• How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

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  Believe, Past, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.558, Macmillan

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

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  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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• Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

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  Wall, Giving, Would Be

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.153, Macmillan

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• To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

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  Children, Feelings

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.377, Macmillan

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• If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

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  Kings, Book, Matter

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.787, Macmillan

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• A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

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  Leadership, Men, Ideas

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn”, p.156, Macmillan

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• I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both.

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  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

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  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

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  Past, Needs, Remember

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

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