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
Robert Jordan quotes about
I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.
There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.
Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.
You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve