You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

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• Ransom Riggs:

  It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photo

• Ransom Riggs:

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

• Ransom Riggs:

  I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down

• Ransom Riggs:

  I write the books to amuse myself.

• Ransom Riggs:

  I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithf

• Ransom Riggs:

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

• Ransom Riggs:

  I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photogr

• Ransom Riggs:

  Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and vis

• Ransom Riggs:

  The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just wher

• Ransom Riggs:

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