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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.
Anne Rice
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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.
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I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?
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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.
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I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.
Anne Rice
It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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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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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
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Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
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I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
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Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
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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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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
Anne Rice
Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
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Let the flesh instruct the mind.
Anne Rice
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
Anne Rice
We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.
Anne Rice
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
Anne Rice
