Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z. Brite

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

Cells

Crazy

Pain

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.

Names

Pseudonyms

Thinking

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

Insignificant

Like Me

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Moving

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Horror

Humanity

Self

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. […] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

Believe

Long

Night

I can’t heal your pain but I can see it. And you don’t have to be lost. Not forever.

Forever

Losing

Pain

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.

Book

New Orleans

Writing

I don’t like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I’m working on now is definitely not horror.

Horror

Progress

Work In Progress

I don’t think it is possible to give tips for finding one’s voice; it’s one of those things for which there aren’t really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Thinking

Voice

Writing

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America

Attitude

Being Ignored

Believe

Blood

Book

Boys

Brave

Cajuns

Cells

Chance

Childhood

Choices

Crazy

Cuisine

Dad

Dark

Darkness

Day Jobs

Desert

Discovery

Diversity

Dog

Done

Drawing

Enough

Eye

Father

Fatherhood

Fiction

Fire

First Kiss

Firsts

Forever

France

Fun

Giving

Good Night

Gothic

Gratitude

Hands

Hate

Heart

Home

Horror

Hot

Humanity

Hurt

Husband

Insignificant

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Quotes by Poppy Z. Brite

Poppy Z. Brite

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.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. […] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

I can’t heal your pain but I can see it. And you don’t have to be lost. Not forever.

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.

I don’t like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I’m working on now is definitely not horror.

I don’t think it is possible to give tips for finding one’s voice; it’s one of those things for which there aren’t really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

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