Anne Rice Quotes

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Anne Rice

Profession : Novelist

Birth : October 4, 1941

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

Anne Rice

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'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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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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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

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

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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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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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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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We're frightened of what makes us different.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

Anne Rice