Rick Riordan Quotes

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

I've always loved mermaids!

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I'm a little bit more of a unicorn, because I'm like a little bit more horsey.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.

We really liked the magic of 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' but we could never figure out where the powers came from.

I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it could be real. Yes it is! It doesn't take a huge stretch in the imagination to imagine that something may be living at the deepest depths of one of our oceans.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

While the whole 'God Butcher Saga' had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed together, 'The Accursed' is very much high-fantasy. Right out of the gate, we've got elves, talk of fantastic worlds, strange creatures, Malekith riding a flying tiger, as well as more dwarves, giants, trolls and elves than you can possibly count.

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

I don't want to hear any more women talk about how they want to be... mermaids.

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.