Rick Riordan Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Character

• You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Character, Eye

• I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Character, Kids

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.614, Scholastic Inc.

• Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Character, Kids

  Source: www.fanpop.com

• All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

  Rick Riordan

  Character, People, Personality

• I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

  Rick Riordan

  Character, Odin, Norse

  "Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek'". Interview with Lindsay Deutsch, www.usatoday.com. May 7, 2013.

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