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Reader Quotes by Rick Riordan
- 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…
- I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
- I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
- I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
- I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
- I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it…
- I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds:…
- 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…
- Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What an interesting idea…
- WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the…
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- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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