Poppy Z. Brite
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Biography
William Joseph Martin, formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author.
"There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up."
"If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it."
"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."
"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."
"This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."
"When 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."
"The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets."