"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 think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances."
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Source: The Infectious Benjamin Percy. Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
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