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Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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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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The one thing you share with every mortal is death.
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I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
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My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.
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Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first the old wither slowly the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
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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.
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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
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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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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
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I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.
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The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
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I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.Oh, inocent love, she said even as she drank from me, oh, innocent innocent love.
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Amazing what the British do with language the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
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When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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