Book Quote by Claire Cameron

What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found'…

— Claire Cameron

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each…

— Claire Cameron

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the survival, the only meaning. The…

— Claire Cameron

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so…

— Claire Cameron

“Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And”

— Claire Cameron

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

— Claire Cameron

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

— Claire Cameron

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought,…

— Claire Cameron

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A…

— Claire Cameron

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling…

— Claire Cameron

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question…

— Claire Cameron