Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
- Anne Rice Quote

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

I broke with my religion in college.
- Anne Rice Quote

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

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
- Anne Rice Quote

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
- Anne Rice Quote

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
- Anne Rice Quote

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
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I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
- Anne Rice Quote

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
- Anne Rice Quote

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
- Anne Rice Quote

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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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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

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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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
- Anne Rice Quote

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
- Anne Rice Quote

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.
- Anne Rice Quote

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
- Anne Rice Quote

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

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
- Anne Rice Quote

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 Quote

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
- Anne Rice Quote

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

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
- Anne Rice Quote

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
- Anne Rice Quote

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 Quote