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Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is go where the pleasure is go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
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A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
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Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.
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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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I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
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Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
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But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.
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I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
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Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
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That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.
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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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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
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Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.
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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.
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And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.
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When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.
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Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
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