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The quote says that something unsettling can be more compelling than something simply frightening. It suggests that unsettling things hold attention because they create a desire to uncover the truth behind them.
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About Ransom Riggs
American writer and filmmaker
Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker, best known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He is especially identified with that book, which brought him wide recognition. His work as a writer and filmmaker places him across both page and screen, though the available facts point chiefly to his fiction. The site includes 105 quotes attributed to him.
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- “You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.”Ransom Riggs
- “I didn't know who I was writing for initially. I assumed 'Miss Peregrine' was for adults, because I was an ad…”Ransom Riggs
- “Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.”Ransom Riggs
- “We kind of know there's no more frontiers in the physical world. So the frontiers move from where we haven't…”Ransom Riggs
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Books by Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2011
Tales of the Peculiar
2016
A Map of Days
2018
A Map of Days
2018
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #3)
2015