Benjamin Percy Quotes

  • Benjamin Percy Quote - I can describe at length every feature on the character, though I might only supply a glimpse of this on the page. So if I’m writing color into that I’m also writing texture, I’m pushing the image more than anything else.

    I can describe at length every feature on the character, though I might only supply a glimpse of this on the page. So if I’m writing color into that I’m also writing texture, I’m pushing the image more than anything else.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - I grew up on genre – on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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 and I’m thinking about books novels.

    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 and I’m thinking about books novels.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - 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.

    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.

    BENJAMIN PERCY
  • Benjamin Percy Quote - People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

    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
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