Anne Rice Quotes

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Anne Rice

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 4, 1941

I broke with my religion in college.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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.

Anne Rice

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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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.

Anne Rice

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

Anne Rice

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.

Anne Rice

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Anne Rice

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

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

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

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I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

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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.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

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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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You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Anne Rice

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

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

Anne Rice