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Interview #456: Louie b. Free Show - Interview with Brandon Sanderson, Entry #13

Louie Free

I’ve got to ask you, and I know you’ve got to go to do another one. Where do you see this going? What would your best dream be for this to go, what you’re doing now, your writing?

Brandon Sanderson

You know what? I just want to be telling these stories until the day I die. I want them to have to pry my forehead off the keyboard where, you know, I’ve typed a thousand pages of the space bar because I’ve just died and keeled over and head hit the keyboard. You know, I didn’t get into this because I want fame. You shouldn’t become a writer because of any of that. I became this because I wanted to be part of this community and I wanted to say something.

I’ve found that readers…it’s a wonderful place to be because, really, your readers are like your colleagues. In a lot of other, sort of celebrity sort of things, an actor or something becomes this big flashy celebrity. That’s not what happens with authors. When I meet my readers, they are my colleagues and we have a connection. They’re supporting me in this. They’re actually my patrons. It’s kind of like the old days when you’d have a wealthy individual that supported an artist. Well, that’s what they’re doing for me, and they’re part of this. I just want to be giving them stories that live up to their expectations.

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