Quotes By Anne Rice

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

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.

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.

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

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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

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

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.

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

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.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

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.

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