Quotes By Anne Rice

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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 broke with my religion in college.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.