Poppy Z. Brite

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.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.