Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 3

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• The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Planning, Assuming

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• imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

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  Real, People, Substance

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.159, Macmillan

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• My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

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  Names, Mad, Hallucinations

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• I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

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  Betrayal, Thinking, Knowing

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.283, Macmillan

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• You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?

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  Brother, Father, Years

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• I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

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  Mean, Rifles, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2013). “Steelheart”, p.77, Delacorte Press

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• What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

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  Mean, Thinking, Fire

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1775, Macmillan

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• ...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)

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  Meaningful, Teacher, Book

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• So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

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  Eye, Pride, Self

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.5, Macmillan

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• How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

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  Fighting, Simple, Thinking

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2009). “The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time”, p.576, Macmillan

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• Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

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  Trying, Firsts, Get Up

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Reckoners Series”, p.144, Delacorte Press

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• The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

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  Way, Life Is, Economics

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.119, Macmillan

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

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  Believe, Want

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• You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

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  Hate, People, Devotion

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.74, Macmillan

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• Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

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  Men, Important, Enough

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Towers of Midnight”, p.679, Macmillan

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• Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

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  Pain, Important

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

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  Giving Up, Thinking, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1814, Macmillan

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• You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

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  Men, Persons, Every Man

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

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• Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

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  Handle

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• "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us"... "But first, they shall fear us!"

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  Fighting, People, Enemy

  "Mistborn: The Hero of Ages". Boook by by Brandon Sanderson, October 14, 2008.

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• My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

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  Trying, Use, Existence

  "Warbreaker". Book by Brandon Sanderson, June 9, 2009.

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• Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky." Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond." Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.

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  Thinking, Lucky, Littles

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• 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 not.

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  Believe, Kind, Individual

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.

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  Believe, Men, Simple

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.654, Macmillan

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• There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

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  Balance, Wish, Needs

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.189, Macmillan

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