Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of the several writers who have written seven original Conan the Barbarian novels that are highly acclaimed to this day. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 October 1948
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.
There are things worth fighting for.
Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.
What woman could I hate enough to marry her to the Dragon Reborn?
Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.
I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.