Brandon Sanderson Quotes

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.