# Quote — Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

> All I can say is this: I know something of what it is to be hunted by the death and destruction of war. I see in your father’s eyes much of what I have felt, but worse. My personal opinion is that the things he sees are more likely a reflection of his past than any mystical experience.

- Author: [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson.md)
- Book: [The Way of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings.md)
- Page: 285
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/all-i-can

## More from this book

> “And so,” he said, “in the end, what must we determine? Is it the intellect of a genius that we revere? If it were their artistry, the beauty of their mind, would we not laud it regardless of whether we’d seen their product before?
>
> “But we don’t. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.
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> “So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent that we think a man can have?” He plucked one final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”

p. 1000 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/and-so-he-said.md)

> People see in stories what they’re looking for.

p. 807 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/people-see-in-stories.md)

> That man’s so incompetent he might as well be fighting for the other side.

p. 667 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/that-mans-so-incompetent.md)