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You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life.
Ransom Riggs
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Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!
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Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing down' to them, or mimicking their voice poorly, or condescending to them in any way, they will throw the book across the room.
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I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
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I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.
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The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
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I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.
SmartPeopleBookTalkingDownKnow
Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.
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Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
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I fell in love with London and one particular era in London.
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I write the books to amuse myself.
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I loved the 'Chronicles of Narnia.'
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