“Robert Jordan” is a trademark as well as a benchmark. Few writers experience this status, not that Jordan betrays any of the outward signs of celebrity.
“I have reacted (to it all) with continual surprise. I like it, of course. Who wouldn’t? But I didn’t expect it. Any writer hopes for success, and by success I mean acclaim, wonderful reviews and going up the best-seller lists. But only an idiot would expect it. There’s another side to that, which I think some writers never get hold of. And that’s the fact that one day it will go away. People like the books I am writing, and a lot of people have bought them. At some point I will write something that they don’t like so well.
“But you hope you keep climbing or that you will have several peaks during your career. What I am most concerned with, frankly, is trying to make each book better than the books that have gone before. If I haven’t learned at least a little bit in the last 18 years then I would be a very sorry writer. I would like to be as good as I can be.”
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