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Poppy Z. Brite
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: May 25
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Billy Martin
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Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.
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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.
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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
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I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
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If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.
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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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I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.
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It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.
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Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.
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You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.
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Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.
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You hold onto what you have you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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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!
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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.
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I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
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Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
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If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
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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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The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
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