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We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn’t hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Brandon Sanderson

True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Boldness Imitation Technique
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Giving People Response
Why do they call it research if I’ve only done it this one time?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Done One Research Time
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Age Body Suffering
But you can’t kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you’ve never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Matter Trying Tyrants
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy’s face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Ago Boys Expectations Long
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.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Trying Understanding
I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted
BRANDON SANDERSON

Metal Steel Writing
That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Delusion Kind Self
My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
BRANDON SANDERSON

Existence Trying Use
You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I’ll never know.” Breeze laughed. “Now, that’s a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn’t!
BRANDON SANDERSON

Ended Insane Lying People
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Absence Discomfort Joy
What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Biology Thinking Wonder
…Generally people don’t recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Book Meaningful Teacher
Ruin still used Reen’s voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she’d never actually seen herself.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Reflection Ruins Voice
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
BRANDON SANDERSON

Dark Evil Librarian

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