“The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can't quite decipher. Like after a… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The seagull doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “It’s just a seagull. It’s there for beach ambience.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“It’s like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Her husband once said that he believed some sort of mathematical equation could be applied to life - since the longer you lived, the… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I think my leap into TV and movies and comics is in a way natural because I'm a visual storyteller. If you look at… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
