How did you get the idea for the the Wheel of Time series?
Well…the first thing I thought of was what would it REALLY be like to be tapped on the shoulder and told that you had been born to save mankind. And somehow or other I suspect it wouldn’t be very much like anyone had said it was so far…and about the same time, I was wondering about the sources of myth. And why there are so many myths and legends that show striking similarities when they’re paired with cultural references. Those two things are as clear to a starting point as I can show you. And they bounced around in the back of my head along with 40 odd years of reading everything I can get my hands on. History, Biography, Myth, Legend, Comparative Religion, Social Anthro, whatever I found. And out eventually came the Wheel of Time…but not until a number of years thinking about it.
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