This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to my heart - is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.

She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she could step off a cliff and muse thoughtfully to herself on the way down.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.