Anne Rice Quotes (54 quotes)

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„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.“
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„When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.“
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„We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.“
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„Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.“
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„I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.“
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„I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.“
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„I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?“
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„I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„I broke with my religion in college.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„We're frightened of what makes us different.“
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„The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.“
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„Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.“
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Anne Rice
Author born: October 04, 1941
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Novelist

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