Brandon Sanderson Quotes - Page 8

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.

Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something.

What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been Vin, she would have stabbed him in the back at the first opportunity, and that would have probably been the right thing to do. Yet, this girl just continued to trust. It was like finding a beautiful plant growing alone in a field of burnt ash.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." "And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?" "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

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.

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

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.