Brandon Sanderson Important Quotations

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

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.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't have made yourself so irreplaceable.Kolo?" -Brandon Sanderson (Elantris)

Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.