Ransom Riggs Quotes

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Constraint inspires creativity

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Creativity thrives best when constrained.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.