"Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction." ― Poppy Z. Brite Topic(s): Food More From Poppy Z. Brite "I like visiting people’s homes on Saint Joseph’s Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public – I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras." "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." More In Food "I don’t think there’s going to be a day when I don’t think about food or my body, but I’m living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it."― Demi Lovato "We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."― Milton Friedman "Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings."― Walter Lang