Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

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“ You have to be very careful where you waste your energy. Some battles just aren’t worth ﬁghting. “

-Brandon Sanderson-

You have to be very careful where you waste your energy. Some battles just aren’t worth ﬁghting.

Ideas are never original, Kelsier said. Only one thing is. And what is that? Style, Kelsier said.Then he punched ruin across the face.

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?

This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love.

She hated dreams. They either showed her a life she couldn't have, or a life that terrified her.

It was a nice dream, wasn't it, Syl? he asked. That we could escape? Find peace at long last? Such a wonderful dream," she whispered.

Vin was coming to realize that her old goal in life, simply staying alive, was uninspired. There was so much more she could be doing.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

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

What did you do, as a son, when the father you loved the greatest man alive started to lose his wits?

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Fighting makes you strong, but also callous. I worry I have learned too much of the latter and not enough of the former.

A knife can only be sharpened so far before all you are doing is wearing it away.

Hope in a lie, hope in me, is not true hope.

People need stories, child. They bring them hope, and that hope is real.

Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real.

They are your men, Kaladin told himself. They need you to lead them, even if they don’t know it. How can you lead from the rear?

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

More wars are lost to lack of information than are lost to lack of courage.

Never underestimate the strength of a soldier trained to stand fast. Never underestimate the simple intimidating force of a man who won't back down.

Our accents are clothing for our thoughts.

It's just when art inspires art, I get excited

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

My true advantage has never been my uncommon intellect. It’s been my ability to find the right people and stick close to them.

I'm not alone. I will never be alone. I'm part of something bigger. And when you pick a fight with one of us . . . you pick it will all of us.

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

I was woman enough to admit that pushing myself now was a bad idea.

If that sounds like hypocrisy to you, well, we like to call it politics.

She was babbling out words as she worked. Seemed appropriate. When he grew nervous he grew even more quiet. She would do the opposite.

Wow! I hate you already.”“Give it time.” Kelsinger said slapping him on the back. “For most that eventually fades to a sense of mild exasperation.

You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've pract

It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

Ten spears go to battle," he whispered, "and nine shatter. Did the warforgethe one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did wasidentify the spear that would not break.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

I will protect even those I hate,” Kaladin whispered through bloody lips. “So long as it is right.

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me.

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

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

I’m so storming pure I practically belch rainbows.

An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

One can believe in a story without believing it happened.

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

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

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

Journey before destination, you bastard.

Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Words are where most change begins.

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

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

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

I ain't grouchy,” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

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

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them

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

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

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

I will take responsibility for what I have done,” Dalinar whispered. “If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

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

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.

Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.

To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

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

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

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

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?

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

The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

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.

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

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

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

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

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.

Honor is dead. But I will see what I can do.

There's always another secret.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The journey is the reward.

What is the most important duty? To learn. And not only to learn, but to understand.

Patience. That is what will get us through. Patience and unity.

Knowledge is dangerous. Seek it anyway.

There are no men like me. There is only me.

A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

A leader doesn’t tell people what to do. He shows them how to do it.

You should not doubt what you are capable of.

To live is to have choice. In this, it is not a static thing. But a choice that moves from moment to moment. We are always choosing.

Failure is the mark of a life well-lived. If you don't fail occasionally, then you aren't pushing yourself.

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

Sometimes we find the best in ourselves by looking for the best in others.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles and trials. The knowledge that we will fail, that we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the

Faith means that it doesn’t matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step.

Expectations are like fine pottery. The harder you hold them, the more likely they are to crack.

Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.

Journey before destination.

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Hard work. Determination.

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

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Introducing Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson or was known as Brandon Winn Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are set. Outside of the Cosmere, he has written several young adult and juvenile series including The Reckoners, the Skyward series,[a] and the Alcatraz series. He is also known for finishing Robert Jordan's high fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Sanderson has created several graphic novel fantasy series, including White Sand and Dark One.

He created Sanderson's Laws of Magic and popularized the idea of "hard magic" and "soft magic" systems. In 2008, Sanderson started a podcast with author Dan Wells and cartoonist Howard Tayler called Writing Excuses, involving topics about creating genre writing and webcomics. In 2016, the American media company DMG Entertainment licensed the movie rights to Sanderson's entire Cosmere universe, but the rights have since reverted back to Sanderson. Sanderson's March 2022 Kickstarter campaign became the most successful in history, finishing with 185,341 backers pledging $41,754,153.