Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is an American novelist and short story writer, born on December 19, 1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska, who writes in English.
Sanderson has produced a substantial body of fiction across multiple series and standalone works. His novels include Elantris, Warbreaker, and Mistborn, as well as the ongoing multivolume series The Stormlight Archive. He has also written Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection alongside the standalone novel The Emperor's Soul and the Legion series. His output further includes the Skyward series, The Reckoners, the Rithmatist series, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, and Tree of the Emerald Sea, demonstrating consistent productivity across a range of formats and projects.
Sanderson has received recognition from several awards bodies. He holds a Hugo Award for Best Novella and a Hugo Award for Best Related Work. He has also received an Audie Award for Fantasy and an Imaginales award for best foreign-language novel. His body of work, spanning standalone novels such as Elantris and The Emperor's Soul as well as series including Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, represents a sustained engagement with long-form and shorter fiction across his career.
Quotes by Brandon Sanderson
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A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.
I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world.
Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
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?'
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.
Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world.
When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.