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==Quotes==
===Warbreaker===
{{quote|I only tell stories, Your Grace,” Hoid repeated. “TheyThey may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.|Hoid to [[Siri]] on the truth of his stories{{ref|b|warbreaker|c|32}}}}
 
{{quote|I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn’tdidn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.|Hoid to Siri on where he learned his particular method of storytelling.{{ref|b|warbreaker|c|32}}}}
 
As Hoid developed that type of storytelling,{{ref|?|590|40|This is a storytelling method that Hoid developed on his own.}} it's possible that the "man who didn't know who he was" is himself.
 
===The Way of Kings===
{{quote|The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar,” Wit said. “Andand the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first--—but also exploit the first first--—while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.|Hoid to Dalinar{{ref|b|twok|c|54}}}}
 
{{quote|Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldygrak. Isn’tIsn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them--—yet wholly unlike them at the same time?
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I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish|Hoid to Dalinar{{ref|b|twok|c|54}}}}
 
{{quote|I’ve abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I’ll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice--&mdash;or if you must, you may call me Hoid.|Hoid to Dalinar{{ref|b|twok|c|54}}}}
 
{{quote|I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.
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“A pretty one, I hope.”
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A beautiful one,” the man said. “And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.|Hoid to [[Kaladin]]{{ref|b|twok|c|57}}}}
 
{{quote|What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”
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What does the story mean, then?
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It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.|Hoid to Kaladin on stories{{ref|b|twok|c|57}}}}
 
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