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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.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
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The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
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When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
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Suffering of sentient beings is like decay it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.
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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.
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Pride is the parent of destruction pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
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I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!
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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?
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