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
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.
Better to face the bear than run from it.
It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.
Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.
It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.
A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.
Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.