“You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.""Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want.""Anything?""Anything that doesn't require doing anything.""That's nothing, then.""Is it?""Yes.""Well, that's something.”

American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult fiction

Brandon Sanderson is an American author of high fantasy, science fiction, and young adult fiction. He is known for the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, both set in his fictional Cosmere universe. He has also written several young adult and juvenile series outside the Cosmere, including The Reckoners, Skyward, and Alcatraz. Sanderson is also known for finishing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, and for creating the graphic novels White Sand and Dark One.