1,392 Quotes by Brandon Sanderson

I underclock conversations. If I focus my full efforts, it takes you several minutes in relative time to speak a single syllable.

It’s actually a rather romantic and dramatic story – one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

I understood in a moment of stillness,′ Litima read. ‘Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing.

He needed more than vague explanations and abstract ideas – but those were the very soul of art. If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art. That was the difference between a table and a beautiful woodcutting. You could explain the table: its purpose, its shape, its nature. The woodcutting you simply had to experience.

But it’s not enough! So long as the most powerful of the Epics consider themselves immune, nothing will change. So long as you leave them alone, you’re essentially proving what they’ve always said! That if an Epic is strong enough, he can take what he wants, do what he wants. You’re saying they deserve to rule.

That a thing is hated is not proof that it’s great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it is not.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

It’s not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.