Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sandersonis an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is best known for his Mistborn series and his work in finishing Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. In 2010, Sanderson published The Way of Kings, the first of a ten book series called The Stormlight Archive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 December 1975
CityLincoln, NE
CountryUnited States of America
book language life-is
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
ruins welcome said
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.
writing two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
fashion religious reading
I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.
Words are where most change begins.
thinking people poison
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.
way mysterious wayne
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
people trying add
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?
lying people insane
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!
reading writing want
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
fashion jealous decided
Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?
joy absence discomfort
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
mean achievement substance
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.
thinking want stuck
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.