Be warned – Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
BRANDON SANDERSONWell, then,” he said. “Let’s do it.” “What?” Vin asked. “Save the world.” Elend said. “Stop the ash.
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain.
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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.
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Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.
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He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.
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How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.
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I don’t have much time for stories,” Vin said. “Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days.” A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. “It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It’s not a very nice place these days.
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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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Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
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…somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
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I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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You’ll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
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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.
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Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?
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Sing!” Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right.”Sing!” If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself… I thought, cringing.
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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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