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 had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.