Ransom Riggs Quotes

I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

Every kid has a story to tell!

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

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.