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

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
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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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Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, Sazed said quietly.
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
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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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Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?
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I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.
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Wayne's a little attached to that hat, Waxillium said. He thinks it's lucky. Wayne: It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat. Marasi frowned. I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond. Wax: That's a common reaction to Wayne.
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There's always another secret.' -Kelsier
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Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.
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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.
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My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
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Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.
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I had Eondel teach me, Raoden said. Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.
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So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.
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If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.
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He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
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You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know. Breeze laughed. Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!
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If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!
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