Quotes by Robert Jordan

“In the beginning, I truly thought it was going to be four or five books, ... When I finished The Eye of the World, I thought I had a good chance of doing it in six.”

“Thats not a guarantee it will be done in three books.”

“There are people who want me to teach them how to channel,”

“I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... Theres 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.”

“[Still, such things] are all peripheral, anyway, ... The books are whats important to me.”

“Im not a guru or a sage. Im a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people who seem to be taking this too seriously.”

“No, I never feel that its getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think its good that Im telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.”

“During the week we just told him to throw the ball up to us, and we would catch it for him.”

“This is my chance to get back. This is my best shot.”

“We feel comfortable. What we practice is what we do.”

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Often you dont know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

One more dance along the razors edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Time to toss the dice

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.