Rick Riordan Hard Quotations

It’s hard to look in charge when you’re hunched over like Quasimodo.

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

Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.