Rick Riordan Quotes About Mythology

Quotes about: Mythology

• 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.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Mean, Brave

• Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Mother, Girlfriend

• Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

  Rick Riordan

  Death, Sorry, Mythology

• I said hello to the poodle.

  Rick Riordan

  Poodles, Hello, Said

• And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

  Rick Riordan

  Kissing, Underwater, Poseidon

• They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

  Rick Riordan

  Real, House, Said

• I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

  Rick Riordan

  School, Mythology, Bus

• Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

  Rick Riordan

  Heart, Mean, Aphrodite

• I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!

  Rick Riordan

  Greek, Wish, Tvs

• 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.

• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

• I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Monsters, May

• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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