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I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.

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I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

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I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

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I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

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Kids are the audience I know best.

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There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

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The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

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I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 5th, 1964

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