Backgrounds Quote by Rick Riordan

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

“A town’s history is like a rambling old mansion filled with rooms and cubbyholes and laundry-chutes and garrets and all sorts of eccentric little…

— Stephen King

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

“There were stories that the tunnels went for miles. There were monsters down there, blind reptiles and insects that had never seen the light,…

— Denis Johnson

“She wandered almost at random, zigzagging streets, following a canal for a bit, stopping to admire the towering red brick buildings that channelled her…

— Karl Drinkwater

“I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows.…

— Mo Hayder

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that…

— David Sedaris

“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is…

— Haruki Murakami

One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now…

— Christine Jennings

“Underground, the story continued.”

— Richard Adams

“Nine floors underground. Ugh. It seemed like a long way to travel for the little origins to get out, but then again, they were…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout