Poppy Z. Brite Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”

“I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.”

“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.”

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

“My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”