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Poppy Z. Brite

"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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Donna Grant

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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Donna Grant

"The world system is employment."

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Donna Grant

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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Donna Grant

"Do not be weary to make money."

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Donna Grant

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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Donna Grant

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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Donna Grant

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Donna Grant

"Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart."

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Donna Grant

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

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Donna Grant

"Do all the work you while you still have strength."

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Poppy Z. Brite
"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

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

Management

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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."

Family

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Poppy Z. Brite
"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!"

Experience

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Poppy Z. Brite
"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."

Body

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

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Poppy Z. Brite
"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."

Death

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

Food

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Poppy Z. Brite
"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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Poppy Z. Brite
"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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