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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
Brandon Sanderson
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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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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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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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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
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You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?
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Faith isn't about logic, son, Haddek said. Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.
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This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.
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Vin shook her head. No, not me. I'm not a good person or a bad person. I'm just here to kill things. OreSeur watched her for a moment, then settled back down. Regardless, he said, you are not my worst master. That is, perhaps, a compliment among our people.
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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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Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
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This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
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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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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours. Ranette: Your mansion isn't safe? Wax: My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study Ranette: Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.
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Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.
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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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I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.
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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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I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.
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You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.
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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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