A person needed to experience real danger, or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.

— Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

— Brandon Sanderson

Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.” He grunted. “Be careful, girl. You wouldn’t want to accidentally insult a man.”“The last thing I’d want to do is accidentally insult you, Vat hah,” Shall an said. “To think that Couldn’t manage it on purpose if I wanted!

— Brandon Sanderson

As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”“Wow...,” I breathed. She frowned

— Brandon Sanderson

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

— Brandon Sanderson

As she’d left, I’d glanced at her gun. This time, when she’d pointed it at me, she’d flicked the safety on. If that wasn’t true love, I don’t know what was.

— Brandon Sanderson

Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards... Honestly, Well, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be." Foolhardy?" Easier asked with a laugh. "That wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do! Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, well! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years""We'll fix that" Easier promised.

— Brandon Sanderson

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

— Brandon Sanderson

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that imagination is one of the most important and defining aspects of human existence: our ability to imagine a world that is not.

— Brandon Sanderson

Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person’s sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person’s sense of self-preservation

— Brandon Sanderson