Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
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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.
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It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.
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Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.
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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.
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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
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Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
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I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs 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.
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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.
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Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
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New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
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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.
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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.
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If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.
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I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
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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.
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With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.
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Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.
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I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
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I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
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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.
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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.
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Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.
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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!
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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.
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Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
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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.
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I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
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The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.
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If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
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