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Ransom Riggs Quotes

I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

City Think Year Write Two Half

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

John Henrik Clarke

Action Long Place Audience Japanese

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

New York Puzzle Play New Bacon Up

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

Poetry Political Nostalgia Immigrants

I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, 'You look better pale.' And I was like, 'Well, you're tan!' She was like, 'It's not the same.'

Girl School Sun Me Better Look

I can't tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, 'Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?' And every time, I would come back, 'Yeah, I wanna do this.'

Diamond Dallas Page

Time Myself Man Fake Hell Year

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

Old Years Eight

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

Smile Good People Me You Say

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

Start You Artist Fall Back Rise

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

Myself Writing Think Doing Happens

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Action Reality Emotion Demands

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Music Because Folk Music Interested

I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

Norbert Leo Butz

New York Bad New Review Wicked Been

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