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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there’s a day care right across the street. Benjamin Percy Read Quote
There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you’re infected. Benjamin Percy Read Quote
I don’t flinch from darkness, but I’ve always been bothered by what I call gore-nography. Benjamin Percy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground. Benjamin Percy Read Quote
