I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension doesn't come… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
