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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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"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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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

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"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."

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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

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"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given."

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"If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday."

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"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."

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"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

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"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

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"I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record."

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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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