Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Brandon Sanderson

  Life, Expectations, Cracks

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

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

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  Clever, Planning, Assuming

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• Elend: I kind of lost track of time… Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Two, Track

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

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  Giving Up, Responsibility, Guilt

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.875, Macmillan

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• There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

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  Secret, Kelsier

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

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  Motivation, Men, Make Sense

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.323, Macmillan

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• Every man is a hero of his own story.

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  Hero, Men, Stories

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.323, 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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• Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

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  Mean, Matter, Happens

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Hero of Ages: Mistborn Book Three”, p.343, Hachette UK

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• There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

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  Rocks, Cities, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.75, 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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• Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

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  Evil, Soul, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.55, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

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  Relationship, Boyfriend, Fun

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Unknowing

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.311, Macmillan

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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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• 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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