Quotes by Micah Perks

Micah Perks

Don’t you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

Thinking

I don’t make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

Character

Fun

Thinking

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection and they stop. Either they stop writing or they have these books in their drawers. I know that for a fact.

Book

Rejection

Writing

I laugh when I’m writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

Feels

Laughing

Writing

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

Ghost Stories

Ideas

Love To Read

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

Believe

Thinking

Writing

I’m really interested in the United States, what it means to be American – maybe because my father’s an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such a total shock to leave the commune and, in a way, enter America for the first time when I was eleven – so I’ve always felt a little like an anthropologist – like, what is this strange place I find myself in, what are the rules here?

Grandparent

Mean

Strange

I’ve always been a teaser, even as a kid.

Kids

Teasers

I’ve heard a lot of editors and agents say, “If the book is good, it will get published.” I totally disagree with that.

Agents

Book

Editors

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has power, who has a voice, what we should care about. But political novels can be boringly polemical if they end up being too black and white, too one dimensional, like war is bad, killing people is wrong.

Black And White

Thinking

War

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Agents

American Writer

Art

Believe

Black And White

Book

Character

Children

College

Editors

Enough

Falling In Love

Feels

Fun

Ghost Stories

Girl

Grandparent

Growing Up

Hurt

Ideas

Impulse

Interesting

Kids

Language

Laughed

Laughing

Love To Read

Mean

Mom

Nice

People

Radical

Rejection

Strange

Support

Teasers

Thinking

Two

Voice

Want

War

Way Forward

Writing

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Quotes by Micah Perks

Micah Perks

Don’t you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I don’t make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection and they stop. Either they stop writing or they have these books in their drawers. I know that for a fact.

I laugh when I’m writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

I’ve always been a teaser, even as a kid.

I’ve heard a lot of editors and agents say, “If the book is good, it will get published.” I totally disagree with that.

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