Anne Rice Quotes

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

Group, Felt, Outsider

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

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

Through, Felt, Vampires

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

Evil, Possible, Goodness

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

May, Door, Question

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

Fool, Yourself, Write

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?
Anne Rice

Find, Whole, Meaning

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

Love, Time, Job

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

God, Nothing, Learned

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.
Anne Rice

Done, Difficult, Write

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

Book, Challenge, Become

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

Looking, Questions, Asking

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
Anne Rice

Keep, Ways, Dealing

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

Time, Him, Enough

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

Success, Power, Greatest

I broke with my religion in college.
Anne Rice

Religion, College, Broke

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.
Anne Rice

Work, Away, Far

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

Keep, King, Output

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

Teacher, Driving, Forces

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

Study, Beginning, Read

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

Different, Another, Write

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

Enjoy, Talk, Able

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

Work, Big, Gave

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

Love, Beautiful, Here

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

Love, Writing, Words

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Nationality: American

Born: October 4, 1941

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