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
Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.
Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.
I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.
Whatever can be done, can be undone.