Rick Riordan Quotes

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• The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.
• That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.
• I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories…
• My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading…
• Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.
• We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the…
• Stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!
• You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.
• You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.
• I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.
• No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
• Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It has to be dealt with, even embraced.
• Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes…
• "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.
• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content…
• I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
• I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The…
• I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
• I like to have a simple workplace.
• My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

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