American - Author | June 5, 1964 -
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.
Rick Riordan
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I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?
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Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.
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It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
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I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.
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It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.
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I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.
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I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.
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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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I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
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Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.
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I like to have a simple workplace.
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