Anne Rice Quotes

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

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• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

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• To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

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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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• There may be writing groups where people meet but it’s occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

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• The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

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

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• The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

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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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• Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King’s books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

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• Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

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• People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

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• Obviously, a writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible.

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• Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

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

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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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