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Book Quotes by Rick Riordan
- 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 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 think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
- I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
- When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding…
- 'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise.…
- I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a…
- I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't…
- When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of…
- Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative…
- All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or…
- Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell…
- Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions…
- Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started…
- To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.
- And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone…
- There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."…
- Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling…
- but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to,…
- I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery.…
- The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.
- The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood