Poppy Z. Brite Quotes

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

Enough, Put, Reason

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
Poppy Z. Brite

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
Poppy Z. Brite

Writer, Known, Rage

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

Death, Book, Here

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. Brite

Work, Working, Talk

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

Food, Enjoy, Public

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

Movies, Film, Stuff

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
Poppy Z. Brite

Job, Writing, Rather

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
Poppy Z. Brite

Great, Home, Husband

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
Poppy Z. Brite

Find, Tried, Avoid

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Poppy Z. Brite

Lost, After, Learn

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

School, Long, Whole

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!
Poppy Z. Brite

Funny, Experience, Thought

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
Poppy Z. Brite

Food, Husband, Enjoy

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

May, Learned, Wanted

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.
Poppy Z. Brite

Good, Dad, Winning

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
Poppy Z. Brite

Mother, Father, Office

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
Poppy Z. Brite

Rather, Orleans, Cuisine

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
Poppy Z. Brite

Food, Through, Fiction

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!
Poppy Z. Brite

Time, Hate, Enough

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

Sex, Understand, Enough

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
Poppy Z. Brite

Book, Perfect, Yeah

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 25, 1967

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