Micah Perks quotes:

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

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

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

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.

It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.

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

Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

No one really wants to be laughed at.

The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.

You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.