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.
I was like 'We're going to need you, keep your head up.' It was more him getting comfortable. Everybody knows he can play ball.
We feel comfortable. What we practice is what we do.
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.
We all agreed it's unacceptable to see the numbers the way they are.
There are people who want me to teach them how to channel,
That's not a guarantee it will be done in three books.
I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... There's no writer who has not had enough ego to hope something he or she wrote would be seized on by the public -- that something they write will last beyond them. But hoping and expecting are two different things. Expecting would be beyond ego.
I'm not a guru or a sage. I'm a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people who seem to be taking this too seriously.