Latest Ransom Riggs Quotes from Interviews

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• If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

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  Book, Perspective, World

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

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  Tribes

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

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  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• 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.

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  Real, Balance, Stories

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

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  Jobs, Directors, Fifty

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• 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.

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  Writing, Doors, Other Worlds

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• My portal to another world was fiction.

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  Fiction, World, Portal

  "Author Ransom Riggs Talks Bringing ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ To The Big Screen". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

• 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.

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  Children, Real, Home

• Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out.

  Ransom Riggs

  Eye, Hair, People