Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

Reality doesn't interest me.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Movies are different from real life.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

My Hollywood is a place where anything can happen, where dreams can become reality, and reality often morphs into fiction. It's a place where people's day jobs create magic.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.