Brandon Sanderson Quotes

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

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

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

The word “History” is mostly made up of the word “Story”.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

you can make mean anything.

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