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
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Better ten days of love than years of regretting.
There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.
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.
I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.