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
Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.
Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.
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.
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.
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.
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.
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.