Brandon Sanderson Want Quotations

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

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

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?