I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories … - Rick Riordan

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I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.

Rick Riordan

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

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Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

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The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

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Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.

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

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Just because you don't see me doesn't mean I wasn't there

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I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

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We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

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Louis Mackey

What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear or laziness?

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Robert Olen Butler

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

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