Quotes from Rick Riordan

Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred?

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Um...is that thing tame ?" Frank said. The horse whinnied angrily. "I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.

And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

Poseidon's trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia's sea power. I especially like the trident on top of an obelisk -- what a great Egyptian/Greek mix up!

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

True success requires sacrifice.