I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193