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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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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."
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"In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot."
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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"
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"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
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"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
Commercialism
"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."
Sex
"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."
Food
"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."
Movies
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
Food
"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."
Literature
"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
Fame
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
Food
"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."
Home
"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."
Family
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