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Interview #622: Reddit AMA 2011, Entry #125

Koryu Obihiro ()

What were your most major influences for writing? Writers, personal experiences, values, beliefs, concepts…these are the things that I’m curious about when I read your novels.

Brandon Sanderson

1) Being annoyed at the same story being told again and again in fantasy. 2) Loving books that did rule-based magic systems with an almost scientific feel. (Melanie Rawn is a good example here.) 3) Wanting to have cinematic fight sequences. (Film influence there. See Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and its ilk.) 4) Loving the deep third person viewpoint as done by people like Robert Jordan, where everything you see is filtered though the eyes of a distinctive character.

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