You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know. " "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise … - Brandon Sanderson

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We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Brandon Sanderson

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.

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Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

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By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

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The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

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And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

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The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

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