The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson

“What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”

“So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talent that we think a man can have?” He plucked one final string. “Seems to me that it must be nothing more than novelty.”