Always Quote by Rick Riordan

I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” "That’s true,” Paul said. “I…

— Rick Riordan

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the…

— Rick Riordan

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with…

— Elinor Lipman

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the…

— Rachel Nichols

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

— Dick Van Dyke

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

— Rick Riordan

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for…

— David James Duncan

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder…

— H. W. Brands

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Learn something new every single day! It keeps you young!”

— Brenda Fasching

“LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the Greek gods…

— Rick Riordan

Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of your practice

— Mak_786