Brandon Sanderson Quotes

The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

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

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

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

It's like a banana farm for guns!

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

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

Oh, I’m just a happy person.

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

I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

You're a sword not a palm tree

I've seen Steelheart bleed

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor