Ransom Riggs Quotes

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.