Ransom Riggs Quotes

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I do not really write for children: I write only for me and for the few people I hope to please, and I write for the story.

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.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

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

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

What I enjoy as entertainment is what I enjoy writing.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.