Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
dream nice sticks
I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick.
wonder now-and-then divulge
Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.
form myth
Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
writing world
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.
growing-up kids florida
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
heart my-heart ifs
If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
world portal
My portal to another world was fiction.
doors needs sometimes
Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
looks sometimes
Sometimes it's better not to look back.
dream home escaping
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
honestly
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.
real balance world
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
running giving-up impossible
I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.
children real school
I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.