Benjamin Percy Professions : Writer Born : March 28, 1979 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Benjamin Percy Yes, 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. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden. Benjamin Percy parents car garden birthday I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground. Benjamin Percy playground outside just up I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it. Benjamin Percy year writing book thinking It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day. Benjamin Percy day light work way I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling. Benjamin Percy write me i-can time Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively. Benjamin Percy will me potatoes meat People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking. Benjamin Percy movies me life people I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist. Benjamin Percy dragon up me horror Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
