Top 500 Brandon Sanderson Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “My Megan is a sunrise, always changing, but beautiful the entire time.”

— Brandon Sanderson

402. “Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.”

— Brandon Sanderson

403. “There were books involved.”

— Brandon Sanderson

404. “For nothing is truly complete until the day it is finally destroyed.”

— Brandon Sanderson

405. “My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.”

— Brandon Sanderson

406. “Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you’ve decided to have me disposed of?”

— Brandon Sanderson

407. “It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.”

— Brandon Sanderson

408. “Visit?” Yeden asked uncomfortably. “You’re going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa... ” Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. “Right. I forgot.”

— Brandon Sanderson

409. “She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, ’cuz stuff needed to be kicked.”

— Brandon Sanderson

410. “To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

411. “What would they think if they knew that their champion – the Hero of Ages, their savior – doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn’t be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder – just as I do. When they see me, do they see a liar?”

— Brandon Sanderson

412. “The best performances, are those that can be performed once.”

— Brandon Sanderson

413. “I am a stick,′ he said. He sounded satisfied.”

— Brandon Sanderson

414. “I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.”

— Brandon Sanderson

415. “You didn’t promise to kill me,” Wayne said, pulling on his socks. “You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.”

— Brandon Sanderson

416. “Kelsier glanced down at his hands and forearms. They still burned sometimes, though he was certain the pain was only in his mind. He looked up at Mennis and smiled. “You ask why I smile, Goodman Mennis? Well, the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I’m disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn’t take very much effort to fight.”

— Brandon Sanderson

417. “The God King’s superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong’s divinity – both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

418. “You have to learn when to care. And when to let go. You’ll grow calluses.”

— Brandon Sanderson

419. “But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.”

— Brandon Sanderson

420. “He ate my horse.”

— Brandon Sanderson

421. “He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn’t beaten.”

— Brandon Sanderson

422. “Brightness Markal! What a disaster that hairstyle is; how brave of you to show it to the world.”

— Brandon Sanderson

423. “It had been like discovering that Santa Claus was secretly a Nazi.”

— Brandon Sanderson

424. “The prophecies are not literal, Mistress,” OreSeur said. “They’re metaphors – expressions of hope. Or, at least, that is how I have always seen them. Perhaps your Terris prophecies are the same? Expressions of a belief that if the people were in danger, their gods would send a Hero to protect them? In this case, the vagueness would be intentional – and rational. The prophecies were never meant to mean something specific, but more to speak of a general feeling. A general hope.”

— Brandon Sanderson

425. “It’s better if I have a hat... You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat.” -Wayne.”

— Brandon Sanderson

426. “There are no good men, Bleeder said. Choice is an illusion, lawman. There are those created to be selfish and there are those created to be selfless. This does not make them good or evil, any more than the ravaging lion is evil when compared to the placid rabbit.”

— Brandon Sanderson

427. “I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. – From Oathbringer, preface.”

— Brandon Sanderson

428. “Greet every morning with a smile. That way it won’t know what you’re planning to do to it?”

— Brandon Sanderson

429. “If you are anything like me – Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome – then you have undoubtedly read many books.”

— Brandon Sanderson

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430. “I’m mysterious,” Kaladin said. “I used to think you were. Then I found out you don’t like good puns – it’s truly possible to know too much about somebody.”

— Brandon Sanderson

431. “Since nothing I can say would be able to pierce your delusions, let the fact that I make no arguments stand as ultimate proof that I am right. As Plato once said that his friend Socrates once said, “I know that I’m right because I’m the only person humble enough to admit that I’m not.” Or something like that. I.”

— Brandon Sanderson

432. “At his neck, hanging outside his clothing, Demoux wore a necklace that bore a small silver spear: the increasingly popular symbol of the Church of the Survivor. It seemed odd to her that the weapon that killed Kelsier would become the symbol of his followers.”

— Brandon Sanderson

433. “I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!”

— Brandon Sanderson

434. “Honor’ is a word applied to the actions of men from the past who have had their lives scrubbed clean by historians.”

— Brandon Sanderson

435. “Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to ‘protect’ the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them where they are, it’s easier for us to swallow what they do to us.”

— Brandon Sanderson

436. “Kelsier watched after him, then did the only rational thing. He ate the bolt he’d taken from the bottom of the stool.”

— Brandon Sanderson

437. “Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”

— Brandon Sanderson

438. “Blushweaver sighed. “You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort... is there anything you don’t avoid?” “Breakfast.”

— Brandon Sanderson

439. “You watch yourself,” I said, wishing I had something to stand on to bring my eyes level with his. “When you are broken and mourning your fall from grace, I will consume your shadow in my own, and laugh at your misery.”

— Brandon Sanderson

440. “The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?”

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441. “Scared to go onward, but terrified to go back to what you were.”

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442. “Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

443. “Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.”

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444. “Whenever one does discover a moment of joy, beauty enters the world. Human beings, we can’t create energy; we can only harness it. We can’t create matter; we can only shape it. We can’t even create life; we can only nurture it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

445. “I seek the truth,” Shallan said. “Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That’s who I am.”

— Brandon Sanderson

446. “I see only one woman here. The one who is standing up.”

— Brandon Sanderson

447. “Vin didn’t consider herself to be either self-assured or self-motivated. Still, she saw no point in asking why. Life had taught her that sometimes things simply happened.”

— Brandon Sanderson

448. “Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. “I don’t get it, El. Why’d she attack him?” “She’s loony,” Spook said.”

— Brandon Sanderson

449. “Why, Elend! That’s almost romantic – in a twisted ‘I’m going to make my wife want to kill me’ sort of way.”

— Brandon Sanderson

450. “Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.”

— Brandon Sanderson