Occupation: Author Birth: August 6, 1934
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer.
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness..
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road..
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless..
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails..
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless c….
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk ….
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth..
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it….
If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him i….
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease….
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar….
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be..
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another,….
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xan….
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food fo….
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it..
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case..
The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all..
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to….