Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.
BRANDON SANDERSONWayne’s a little attached to that hat,” Waxillium said. “He thinks it’s lucky.” Wayne: “It is lucky. I ain’t never died while wearing that hat.” Marasi frowned. “I … I’m not sure I know how to respond.” Wax: “That’s a common reaction to Wayne.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man’s opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I’m the one with the armies.
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Kelsier smiled. ‘It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.’
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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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There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
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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.
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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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A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
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My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?
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You’ve managed– in our short three years together– to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That’s kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It’s a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn’t you say?
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Ah, the outdoors,’ Shallan said. ‘I visited that mythical place once.
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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.
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Faith isn’t about logic, son,” Haddek said. “Perhaps that’s your problem. You cannot ‘disprove’ the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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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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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.
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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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