Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 March 1979
CountryUnited States of America
gun car facts
I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.
fantasy-novels spy horror
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
house way different
I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.
smell people pull-ups
People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.
stars moving rocks
You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.
voice puppets might
My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.
regret thinking alcohol
I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.
running world want
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.
writing men humanity
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.
writing views empathy
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.
brew call head kids office pack pot routine sort standard travel
I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.