A: In dust cover, too many to list here.

A: I never expected anything like this, and I really don't know how long it took me to realize that the books were very popular. It rather crept up on me.

A: It will last several more books, until I reach the last scene, which has been in my head since the very beginning.

A: No.

A: It all started with wondering what it was really like to be tapped on the shoulder and told that you are the savior of mankind. Ten years of thinking about that, and I began writing. I'm sorry, it just isn't that simple. I simply do it, and it would take me all night to explain how, if I could.

A: At five, while reading Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, I decided I wanted to write, but I always thought I would do it "one day," after I had a practical career. Then I was injured and I had a lot of time on my hands, so I decided to put up or shut up about this "one day" stuff.To my surprise, somebody actually wanted to buy it, and that was that.

A: I never expected anything in the least like this, and as far as affecting me in any way --I now look through the peephole before I open doors.

A: It doesn't follow that simply because the Age that Lews Therin ended is now called the Age of Legends, that this Age which Rand lives in in any way is a repeat of that particular age. What is/was the Age of Legends will repeat eventually, but not until the Wheel turns considerably further.

A: An Encyclopedia will have to wait until the Wheel of Time is finished, but the guys who did The Illustrated Guide to Pern and The Illustrated Guide to Amber are interviewing me next month for the same sort of book about the Wheel.

A: Yes, in a way. I started--about a year ago--thinking about the book or books that I will write immediately after the Wheel is done. That has a little way to go, though.

A: Generally I sign as many books as anyone brings, but the practical limit is set by how many people there are and how much time I have to spend at that store. For the rest, are you saying Robert Jordan isn't my real name?

A: Those who did not die on the night that Liandrin and the others left, died not long thereafter. Not all of them had warders, remember. And not just the Reds.

A: I graduated from The Citadel and, for the rest, Read And Find Out! That is neither to say yes nor no; just Read And Find Out.

A: Average day at beginning of book is: have breakfast, answer letters and telephone calls, then write for six to eight hours. Do this five days a week. After a while, this gets to be: drink a quart or two of strong coffee, write for twelve to fourteen hours a day, and do this seven days a week. Eventually the book is finished or I am dead.

A: Not hardly, Jack! I meant that it's a constant struggle.

A: Yes and yes.

A: Well, I tiptoe up to it, then I grab it by the throat, throw it down, and kick it.

A: I have written other kinds of books in the past and I will write other kinds of books in the future, but at the moment the Wheel takes all of my time.

A: I suppose to the degree that he inspires any fantasy writer in the English language, certainly.

A: Well, I've been reading history as a hobby since I was five or six, and yes, I do know how it will turn, and how it will end.