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" I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour. "
Rick Riordan
Now
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" 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 print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times. "
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Picture
Long
" The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met. "
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You
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" You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time. "
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You
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" There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods. "
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Bring
Young
People
" 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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Nor
Web
Book
" Kids are the audience I know best. "
Rick Riordan
Know
Best
Kids
" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "
Rick Riordan
Culture
Roots
Know
" I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes. "
Rick Riordan
Write
Able
Five
" I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. "
Rick Riordan
Second
Write
Hardest
" For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book. "
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Me
Lose
Book
" 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 an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience. "
Rick Riordan
Reading
Travel
Hands
" When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important. "
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Me
College
House
" 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 normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library. "
Rick Riordan
Book
Never
Me
" It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better. "
Rick Riordan
Do Your Best
Believe In Yourself
Best
" I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things that people have not seen for thousands of years and bringing them into the modern world. "
Rick Riordan
People
Research
Say
" I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them. "
Rick Riordan
Reading
Time
Love
" I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me. "
Rick Riordan
Me
Hidden
World
" I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults. "
Rick Riordan
Career
Always
Writing
" It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine! "
Rick Riordan
Son
Writing
Yesterday
" It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. "
Rick Riordan
Well
Sit
Scotland
" I like to have a simple workplace. "
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Simple
Like
Workplace
" Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations. "
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Japan
Top
Three
" 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 wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. "
Rick Riordan
Love
Great
Reading
" Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day. "
Rick Riordan
Two
Kind
I Am
" I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series. "
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Started
Wrote
Years
" No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again. "
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Children
Door
Literature
" As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.' "
Rick Riordan
Talk
Smart
People
" There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M. "
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Down
Process
Days
" Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child. "
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Child
Important
Think
" 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 to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience. "
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Thought
Writing