Poppy Z. Brite quotes

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. (Poppy Z. Brite)
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. View quote
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. View quote
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And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it. View quote
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I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A. M. knows all my secrets. View quote
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I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. View quote
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The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. View quote
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Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. View quote
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You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you. View quote
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If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it. View quote
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Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood. (Poppy Z. Brite)
When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire. View quote
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Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything. View quote
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Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them. View quote
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. View quote
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Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. View quote
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I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras. View quote
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. View quote
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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long. View quote
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! View quote
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. (Poppy Z. Brite)
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. View quote
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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. View quote
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. View quote
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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! View quote
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