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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 7

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Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

Pain, Book, Believe

FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

Home, Evil, World

FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Feb 05, 2017

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.

Black, Vampire, Capes

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

Song, Pain, Painful

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.26, Ballantine Books

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

Views, Evil, Vampire

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.

Mind, Trying, Demise

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.

Jesus, Moving, Commitment

… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

Struggle, Sight, Doors

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

Fashion, Water, Soul

I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.

Flower, Eye, Dna

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

Buddhist, Believe, People

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.

Lonely, Training, Groups

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

Animal, Unique, Thinking

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

Beautiful, Christian, Real

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.

Believe, People, Evil

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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

Teacher, Mentor, Driving

I broke with my religion in college.

College, Literature, Broke

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Book, Writing, Narrators

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

Disappointment, Children, Lying

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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.

Thinking, Moments, Enough

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Love Is, Suffering, Gains

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2794, Ballantine Books

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.

Moving, Book, Down And

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

Literature, Never Quit, Way

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

Asking Questions, Asking, Literature

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.

Angel, Saint, Literature

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