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“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
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“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
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I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
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“Deadlines just aren't real to
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“The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt."Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot.""He's the sun god," I said."That's not what I meant.”
“I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.”
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“People don’t just appear on the beach unless they’re demigods or gods or really, rea
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Click any of the questions below to reveal Rick’s advice.
Did you always know you wanted to be a writer?
Yes and no.
I wrote a lot of short stories when I was young, and even sent a few in (to get rejected).
I was never serious about writing in college. I focused most of my creative energy on music, and was lead singer in a människor rock grupp, if you can believe it.
After college, inom became a teacher, and was ganska happy with the idea of doing that the rest of my life. However, inom read a lot of mystery books in my spare time, and when my wife and inom moved to San Francisco, I started missing Texas.
I decided, on a lark, that I would try writing a standard hard-boiled private eye novel set in my hometown of San Antonio. Ten months later, BIG RED TEQUILA was finished.
The strange thing is, inom had a feeling that BIG RED TEQUILA was going to get published. It just felt different than anything else I'd ever written, because the novel had practicall