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Explore more quotes by Poppy Z. Brite
"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."
"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
"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!"
"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."
"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."
"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!"
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
"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."
Exlpore more Work quotes
"The world system is employment."
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
Work,
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"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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