“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.” — 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
“The seagull doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “It’s just a seagull. It’s there for beach ambience.” — 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… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to write every day as if you were clocking in for a job. Or if not every day, then damn… — 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… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The more characters you have, the bigger the book, the more flaming chain saws.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood… — 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
