How do you ‘accidentally’ kill a noble man in his own mansion?” “With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
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More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can’t do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
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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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My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.
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You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?” “I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. “None of them contradict each other?” Sazed smiled. “Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all.
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In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.
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Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that’s why there’s so much training. The ones who hold aren’t the courageous ones, they’re the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
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A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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You’re a sword not a palm tree
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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.
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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.
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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
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