Ransom Riggs Quotes

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

When I write, I imagine places more than people.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.