"It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for me, personally, I just like to concentrate on writing the best book I can, and if there's other stuff that goes along with it, that's awesome, as long as the story is central."

-- Rick Riordan

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“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”
“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”
“Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!”
“My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.”
“My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.”
“All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?”
“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”

Source : "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.
“What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.”

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