Brandon Sanderson Quotes

The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

Brandon Sanderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1975

Topics

WorkCharacterStoryBetterWave

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

Joe Gebbia

TimeNewPolicyUpTakeCatch

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Sonam Kapoor

FreeYouChoiceFree WillPersonal

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

Torrey DeVitto

MeMomCreekWatchWouldAllow

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

Tracy Morgan

MusicDancePeopleCollegeStart

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Rita Ora

WorkYourselfFriendsKnow Yourself

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Ruthie Ann Miles

PerspectiveMeChanceStoryPlay

Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.

Rohit Sharma

TimeBrainCricketEasyYouLooks

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Mike White

WritingActingDesireTellLittle

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Milan Kundera

ArtYouFallNeedMasterExistence

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Louise Brown

WomenThinkGenderYearTeachMost

And every human being is precious.

Desmond Tutu

HumanHuman BeingPreciousBeing

I'm open to whatever God puts in front of me and makes my heart pitter patter.

Tiffany Haddish

GodHeartMeOpenWhateverFront

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