Quotes By Anne Rice

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.

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

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.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

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.

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

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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.

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.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

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 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.

I broke with my religion in college.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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