Brandon Sanderson

Quotes

1. You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.

   p. 401

2. 

   Expensive, yes. But by definition, therefore, not priceless.

   p. 112

3. 

   He needed more than vague explanations and abstract ideas—but those were the very soul of art. If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art. That was the difference between a table and a beautiful woodcutting. You could explain the table: its purpose, its shape, its nature. The woodcutting you simply had to experience.

   p. 295

4. 

   Who would have thought that bearing an ancient, divine mantle of power and honor would involve so many meetings?

   p. 451

5. 

   Oh, Adolin, Shallan thought. He’d arrived at a theory he liked, and now wouldn’t let it go. It was a common mistake warned of in her scientific books.

   p. 159

6. 

   “Falsehoods serve nobody, Kadash,” Dalinar said, pulling back. “If the Almighty is dead, then pretending otherwise is pure stupidity. We need real hope, not faith in lies.”

   p. 178

7. 

   “Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. ‘Old’ is a word you use for worn shoes. I’m something else entirely.”

   p. 679

8. 

   She didn’t exactly understand what she was doing, but she rarely did. Art wasn’t about understanding, but about knowing.

   p. 98

9. 

   In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

   p. 503

10. 

    “What’s the point of goals, if not to spur you to something lofty?”

    “Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don’t know.”

    p. 681

11. 

    But you should try to understand what they want out of life, and respect that, rather than projecting onto them what you think they should want out of life.

    p. 366

12. 

    Every army needed someone to run at the front and soak up arrows.

    p. 530