Quotes By Anne Rice

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?