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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.

Brandon Sanderson

Kelsier leaned forward again. ‘But, you weren’t born an aristocrat. You’re not noble, Vin. You don’t have to play by their rules–and that makes you even more powerful.
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Aristocrat Make Noble Play Powerful
If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
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Anything Better Doing
It sounds to me, young one,” Haddek said, “that you are searching for something that cannot be found.” “The truth?” Sazed said. “No,” Haddek replied. “A religion that requires no faith of its believers.
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Found Said Searching Something Sound
What was that?” Galladon demanded. “I think I just destroyed the biology section” Raoden replied with wonder.
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Biology Thinking Wonder
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.
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Book Giving People Response
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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Book Moving Want
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
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Dark Evil Librarian
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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Book Feet Writing
To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain–leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.
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Heart Life Person Roots Uncertain
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
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Important Mean Victory
A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood
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Darkness Knows Person
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler.” Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact.
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Best Effort People Use
Ah, the outdoors,’ Shallan said. ‘I visited that mythical place once.
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Mythical Outdoor Said
The man who spent his youth being shoved around, however … When that man gets a little power and authority, he often uses it to become a tyrant on par with the worst warlords in history.
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Authority History Shoved Worst
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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Arrogant Guess Man Own Perhaps
imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
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People Real Substance

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