Quotes By Anne Rice

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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?