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Interview #82: Waldenbooks Interview, Entry #4

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What do you hope readers will gain from reading your novels?

Robert Jordan

I do hope that people will occasionally think about “the right thing to do,” about right behavior and wrong, after reading one of my books. I certainly don’t try to tell them what right behavior is, only to make them think and consider. But mainly, I just want to tell a story. In this case, about ordinary people pushed into extraordinary events and forced to grow and change whether they want to or not, sometimes in ways they never expected and certainly wouldn’t have picked out given a choice. I am a storyteller, after all, and the job of a storyteller is to entertain. Anything else is icing on the cake.

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