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 pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
You must surrender before you can guide.
If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.
Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.
As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.
The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!
A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight