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
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.
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.
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.