Shannon Smith

“If I pretend … If I pretend I didn’t do those things, it means that I can’t have grown to become someone else.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives making bad practice pieces than they do masterworks, particularly at the start. And even when an artist becomes a master, some pieces don’t work out. Still others are somehow just wrong until the last stroke. “You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes. Plus, good art usually evokes the same emotions in people—most good art is the same kind of good. But bad pieces can each be bad in their own unique way. So I’m glad we have bad art, and I’m sure the Almighty agrees.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer