People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside. “You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

Piper patted his shoulder. “Trust me, Valdez. Beautiful people never lie.

Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when they’re needed most.

But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and it's so much richer than you might get in an average Greek mythology text. I feel like an archaeologist - I'm dusting off these things that people have not seen for thousands of years and bringing them into the modern world.

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.

Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.

When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.