Poppy Z. Brite quotes - page 2

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. (Poppy Z. Brite)

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

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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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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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He has ''. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' '. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.

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I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

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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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They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade.

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

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If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life. (Poppy Z. Brite)

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Photo: Billy Martin, GFDL

Occupation: American Author
Born: May 25, 1967
Quotes count: 36

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