“The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.” — Benjamin Percy Bad news Copy Share Image
“Matters of the heart make your world worth occupying.” — Benjamin Percy Matters of the heart 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… — Benjamin Percy 16th birthday Copy Share Image
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it -… — Benjamin Percy Cracks Copy Share Image
“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.” — Benjamin Percy Writing 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… — Benjamin Percy Body image Copy Share Image
“The seagull doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “It’s just a seagull. It’s there for beach ambience.” — Benjamin Percy Writing 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… — Benjamin Percy Life Copy Share Image
“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be… — Benjamin Percy Children 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 Books 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… — Benjamin Percy Book Copy Share Image
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Books Copy Share Image
“Her husband once said that he believed some sort of mathematical equation could be applied to life - since the longer you… — Benjamin Percy Life 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 Character Copy Share Image
“I would encourage subtlety. Nabokov’s bubble gum or Munro’s water over Dumbo’s magic feather.” — Benjamin Percy Bubble gum Copy Share Image
I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone… — Benjamin Percy Alcohol Copy Share Image
“...if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted… — Benjamin Percy Animals Copy Share Image
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels. — Benjamin Percy Books Copy Share Image
I found collaboration to be a terrible thing in Hollywood because there are so many people involved you have to make a… — Benjamin Percy Artist Copy Share Image
“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.” — Benjamin Percy Editor 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 Authors Copy Share Image
People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon. — Benjamin Percy Crank 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 Books Copy Share Image
My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine… — Benjamin Percy Has beens Copy Share Image
