If you want something, you don’t wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it. — Poppy Z. Brite
I’m your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you’ve become one? — Poppy Z. Brite
Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite
I can’t heal your pain but I can see it. And you don’t have to be lost. Not forever. — Poppy Z. Brite
I certainly don’t think I would have been asked to pose for rage if I wasn’t a known writer. — Poppy Z. Brite