Anne Rice Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

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 know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to love all the children of God – Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist – everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

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

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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