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Ransom Riggs

American Writer

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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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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. Ransom Riggs

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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. Ransom Riggs

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Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write. Ransom Riggs

Great Great Fun Folk Write Part Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Stories Fun

It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one. Ransom Riggs

I fell in love with London and one particular era in London. Ransom Riggs

Love London Particular Fell Era

I write the books to amuse myself. Ransom Riggs

Myself Books Write Amuse

I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film. Ransom Riggs

Writing Try Scenes Like Were Them Film Play Watching Imagine

Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread. Ransom Riggs

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Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and dumped in disorganized bins, selling 10 for a dollar. I wondered how people could give up pictures of their great-grandparents for complete strangers to paw through - or why complete strangers would want them. Ransom Riggs

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I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie. Ransom Riggs

Fathom Total Fame Fame Thing Just Thing

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them. Ransom Riggs

You Unknown Secure Out Characters City Plunging Taking Know How Been Years Get Them Hollow Really Lives

I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn't just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece. Ransom Riggs

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I had always secretly wanted to write a novel. Ransom Riggs

Secretly Write Had Always Wanted Novel

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. Ransom Riggs

I love building out the worlds of my fiction with fictional books. Ransom Riggs

Love Building Worlds Books Out Fiction Fictional

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside. Ransom Riggs

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