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
Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.
You will serve the Cyrstal Throne well. It would be a shame to see you assassinated too early. I will make certain that the first I send after you are newly trained, so that you may stop them with ease." -General Galgan to Mat
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.