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
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
Better to face the bear than run from it.
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.
There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
During the week we just told him to throw the ball up to us, and we would catch it for him.
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
There are people who want me to teach them how to channel,
We all agreed it's unacceptable to see the numbers the way they are.
No, I never feel that it's getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it's good that I'm telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.
I told him, 'I'm going to be there for you,' ... 'Whatever you throw up for me, I'll go get.'
I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).
We feel comfortable. What we practice is what we do.