In france, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that on the road had been — Poppy Z. Brite
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. — 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 — Poppy Z. Brite
Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the great unwashed. — Poppy Z. Brite
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about new orleans without explaining it to death — Poppy Z. Brite
I like visiting people’s homes on saint joseph’s day, when people set up altars, serve food — 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. — Poppy Z. Brite
I’ve certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written — Poppy Z. Brite
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body — Poppy Z. Brite
In the netherlands I read the first chapter of exquisite corpse to an audience that laughed in — Poppy Z. Brite
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. — Poppy Z. Brite
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and — Poppy Z. Brite
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to — Poppy Z. Brite
Some of the food in liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me — Poppy Z. Brite
This is the point being missed by readers who lament liquor’s lack of hot s*x scenes — Poppy Z. Brite