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• I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

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• We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

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• I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them.

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• The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

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• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

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• The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They’ve always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

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• Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

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• I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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• Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough.

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• I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I’ve always felt that I wasn’t a member of any particular group.

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• My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

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• That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don’t have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

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• You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don’t know each other very well.

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• Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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• The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

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• When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can’t say it enough.

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• I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.

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• The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

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• I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.

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• It is tragic that many in America think of us – Christians – as being people who hate others.

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Anne Rice (68)

Birth:	4th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans. She is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.  She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. In addition to her vampire novels, Rice has authored books such as The Feast of All Saints and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries.

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