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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Bleed
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Well, then, he said. Let's do it. What? Vin asked. Save the world. Elend said. Stop the ash.
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Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
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Sometimes, son, my father said, prying my fingers free, you have to help the heroes along.
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The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.
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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.
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Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.
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I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.
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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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He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
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You're a mean old man, Your Grace. And that is the way it should be. Roial informed. Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.
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Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
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You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
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You could be writing the book that changes your life.
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Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.
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A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.
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Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
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You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze
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Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.
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That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
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