Rick Riordan

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

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

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.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'