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
The fox often offers the duck its pond.
It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.
Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!
You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.
You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.