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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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Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.
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The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always I love you I wish you were here...in my arms.
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I assume I don't need an introduction.
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
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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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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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Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not only believe the world will end soon, but are looking forward to it. I MUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. IN JESUS' NAME.
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The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
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