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Anne Rice
American
Novelist
Born:
Oct 4
,
1941
Always
Love
Own
People
World
You
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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.
Anne Rice
God
Soul
Vision
Seen
Devil
Nothing
Damn
Secret
Would
My Soul
Never
Know
Learned
Nor
Save
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
Makes
Frightened
Different
Us
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice
Success
Together
Writers
Outsiders
Feel
Come
Like
Because
Real
Gain
Groups
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.
Anne Rice
Me
Vampires
Through
Vehicles
Felt
Always
Metaphors
Been
Very
Which
Express
Deeply
Things
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Anne Rice
Relationship
You
Lunch
Sexy
Put
Make
Box
His
Loving
Note
Sandwiches
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.
Anne Rice
God
Character
Son
Vital
Mary
Take
Make
Him
Sought
Gospels
Did
Breathing
Believable
Utterly
Jesus
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.
Anne Rice
Own
White
Out
Would
My Own
Parlor
Put
Like
House
Laid
Double
Coffin
Funeral
Flowers
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
Anne Rice
Open
Annihilate
Answer
Question
May
Door
Whirlwind
Ask
Really
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice
Evil
Goodness
Difficulty
Possible
Always
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.
Anne Rice
Me
Inspire
Own
Though
Characters
My Own
Mythology
May
Stories
Created
Realm
Working
Conscious
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.
Anne Rice
You
Book
Down
Everything
About
Absolutely
Feels
Along
Reach
Know
Up
Authentic
Move
Deep
Deep Down
Bring
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
Anne Rice
Word
Every
Enough
Say
Something
Write
Meant
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.
Anne Rice
You
Yourself
People
Writing
Own
Meet
Typewriter
Computer
Occasional
May
Where
Really
Your
Groups
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?
Anne Rice
World
Interview
Vampire
Find
Immortal
He
Simply
Quest
Existing
Louis
Godless
Theme
Meaning
Meaning Of
Ask
Whole
Oldest
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
Anne Rice
Year
Difficult
Took
Vampire
Write
Had
Most
Terms
Done
Getting
Just
Novel
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
Anne Rice
Christian
Has-Been
Vocation
Since
Another
Been
Essence
Going
Form
Story
Evangelist
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
Anne Rice
Impossible
Everything
About
Writer
Writes
Know
Obviously
She
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.
Anne Rice
Me
Book
Challenge
Become
Every
Meet
Way
Characters
Write
Consumed
Written
Obsession
Been
Led
Theme
Ever
Desire
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
Anne Rice
Hate
People
Think
Others
Tragic
America
Being
Us
Who
Many
Christians
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Anne Rice
Doubt
Definitely
No Doubt
About
More
Writers
Am
Than
American
Influenced
European
American Writers
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Anne Rice
Love
Wish
Christian
Visible
About
More
Had
Leaders
Talked
Catholic
Who
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.
Anne Rice
People
Wonderful
Thought
King
Beginning
Out
Kinds
Absolutely
He
Stephen King
Terrible
Shining
Hand
Just
In The Beginning
Which
Dismissed
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
Book
Madness
Old
Before
Farm
Read
Amazed
Began
Curiosity
Shop
Utter
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Anne Rice
Work
Big
Gave
Out
Bros
Hour
Years
Up
Big Screen
Just
Screen
Work Out
Warner
Warner Bros
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.
Anne Rice
Will
Group
Member
Outsider
Feel
Particular
Like
Felt
Always
Any
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
Anne Rice
Way
Something
Write
Another
Another Way
Go
Different
Want
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