Poppy Z. Brite Professions : Author Born : May 25, 1967 Browse All Authors Top 47 quotes by Poppy Z. Brite My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Poppy Z. Brite office mother father 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 dad chance winning Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. Poppy Z. Brite liquor veils fiction 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 childhood fatherhood may 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 gothic attitude long I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. Poppy Z. Brite movies think hollywood horror I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer. Poppy Z. Brite pose been think rage Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors