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Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing. - Tam al'Thor

Brandon Sanderson

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Always
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I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.
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Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
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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.
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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
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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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You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
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Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
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Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
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You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
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Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
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In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
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Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
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A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
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I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
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To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.
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We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
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One can have a wit, but not a witless
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