Anne Rice Quotes

• Invest in a feather duster – the possibilities are endless.

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• I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

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• I’m going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

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• I’m fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

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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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• I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.

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• I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

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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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• I want to love all the children of God – Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist – everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

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• I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

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• I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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• I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

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• I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

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• I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

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• I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn’t work out.

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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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• 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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• I do want to go another way – to write something completely different.

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

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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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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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