Top 35 Ridley Pearson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Okay, so let’s run faster.”

— Ridley Pearson

2. “Always trust computer games.”

— Ridley Pearson

3. “When I do things I shouldn’t do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses – that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.”

— Ridley Pearson

4. “I’m still only half the writer I hope I will be.”

— Ridley Pearson

5. “The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.”

— Ridley Pearson

6. “Walt loved technology. He didn’t understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn’t have to understand it. Just use it.”

— Ridley Pearson

7. “You forgot something: evil never wins in the Magic Kingdom.”

— Ridley Pearson

8. “Few battles are won by strength alone. Cunning and knowing your resources can help you overpower the most powerful.”

— Ridley Pearson

9. “I’ve been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.”

— Ridley Pearson

10. “I’m a big girl, Finn.”

— Ridley Pearson

11. “The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.”

— Ridley Pearson

12. “Not all leaders are elected, Finn. Some just rise to the occasion.”

— Ridley Pearson

13. “Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.”

— Ridley Pearson

14. “Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.”

— Ridley Pearson

15. “One thing I’d learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.”

— Ridley Pearson

16. “As a young boy, I read ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

— Ridley Pearson

17. “Being right wasn’t nearly as important as doing right...”

— Ridley Pearson

18. “Amazing things happen when we put our minds to it. There is a saying that seeing is believing. But believing is seeing, as well. And touching. And hearing. Connecting.”

— Ridley Pearson

19. “My favorite novel is ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.”

— Ridley Pearson

20. “MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.”

— Ridley Pearson

21. “Maybe we all dream pieces of the future but just don’t happen to know it.”

— Ridley Pearson

22. “I’m about to read Scott Turow’s ‘Innocent.’ I’ve been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I’m a serious Turow fan.”

— Ridley Pearson

23. “True love isn’t reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It’s from the heart. That’s all it has to be. All it ever is.”

— Ridley Pearson

24. “Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.”

— Ridley Pearson

25. “The difference between paranoia and remaining alert is how you let your fear affect you.”

— Ridley Pearson

26. “Not every story is true,” he said. “Not every rumor is false.”

— Ridley Pearson

27. “For the first-time novelist you’ve got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

— Ridley Pearson

28. “So does that mean we get Eric, too?” Willa said. “Because Eric is definitely hot, and if I had my choice I’d take Eric over some white-haired king merman any day.”

— Ridley Pearson

29. “Finn stood away from all the water with his friend Dillard, who had taken the occasion to borrow one of his father’s Hawaiian shirts. Finn thought he looked pretty cool.”

— Ridley Pearson

30. “I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.”

— Ridley Pearson

31. “Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.”

— Ridley Pearson

32. “Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.”

— Ridley Pearson

33. “Hey, if you don’t believe in yourself, then who will?”

— Ridley Pearson

34. “What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?”

— Ridley Pearson

35. “Well, listen, Obi-Wan,” Philby said sarcastically. “Why don’t you tell me and Luke here where to find him, and we’ll make for hyperspace.”

— Ridley Pearson

36. “Facebook page had more friends than Ashton.”

— Ridley Pearson