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

You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line. — 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. — Poppy Z. Brite

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them. — Poppy Z. Brite

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. — Poppy Z. Brite

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. — Poppy Z. Brite

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. — Poppy Z. Brite

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

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. — 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

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it. — Poppy Z. Brite

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one. — Poppy Z. Brite

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

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter? — Poppy Z. Brite

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you. — Poppy Z. Brite

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

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood. — Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. — Poppy Z. Brite

Let the night come. We are not afraid. — 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

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood. — Poppy Z. Brite

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything. — Poppy Z. Brite

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you. — Poppy Z. Brite

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. — Poppy Z. Brite

At some point you have to start letting people save their own life. — Poppy Z. Brite

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser. — 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

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. — 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