Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

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.

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

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword." She raised an eyebrow. "Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.

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

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway . It was the single most beautiful thing he'd seen in his entire life.

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

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

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

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.

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

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.

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

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

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.

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

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

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

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

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