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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

Topics: Across Apocalypse Care Day Every Ground Ground Zero Imagine Iowa Labs Nasty Right Security Stored Street Thing You Zero

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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

Topics: Among Before Brain Cure Differently Disease Each Go Host Infected Might Months Other Realize Reveal Symptoms Targets Themselves Things Years You Your

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I don't flinch from darkness, but I've always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

~Benjamin Percy

Topics: Always Been Bothered Call Darkness

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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

Topics: About Birthday Came Car Fact Fruits Garden Grew Guns In Fact Instead Most Nothing Our Own Parents Phase Playful Received Them Through Tools Up Vegetables Were Yes

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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

~Benjamin Percy

Topics: Acres Grew Just Oregon Outside Playground Served Up Western

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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.

~Benjamin Percy

Topics: Always Basement Call Coffee Day Downstairs Get Getting Head Hustle Kids Off Office Often Pack Pot Routine School Scrambled Sort Standard Then Travel Up

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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.

~Benjamin Percy

Topics: Barry Book Country Dark Darth Vader Drunk First Go Low Make Material Often People Phone Play Putting Quirky Rather Readings Really Singing Sound Suits Terrifying Think Up Voice White I Can

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I typically spend a year thinking about a book before I begin writing it.

~Benjamin Percy

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Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

~Benjamin Percy

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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

Topics: Could Craft Day Doors Down Early Four Getting Hard Hours House Incredibly Just Kicking Letters Light Never Novels Pages Published Put Rejection Saw Sent Still Thousands Way Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 28th, 1979

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