Poppy Z. Brite Quotes

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

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! - Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. - 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

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. - 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

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. - Poppy Z. Brite

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

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. - Poppy Z. Brite

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