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
One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.
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
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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.