Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it’s never going to be perfect on your first pass.
BRANDON SANDERSONBy the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight’s magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?”)
More Brandon Sanderson Quotes
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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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.
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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 convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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I loathe what you’ve done. What has happened to you?’ Test him!’ Rand whispered, voice dangerous. ‘Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.
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It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
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You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?
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What did you put in the fire?” Kaladin said. “To make that special smoke?” “Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire.” “But, I saw-” “What you saw belongs to 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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I’m far more than just a ‘mild’ annoyance–people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?
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I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he’s still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
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Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.
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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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