All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someoneโs face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someoneโs skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another personโs body at your thrall.
Poppy Z. BriteWhen you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.
Poppy Z. BriteI'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. BriteI 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.
Poppy Z. BriteI don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
Poppy Z. BriteIt 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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