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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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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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I know Christianity and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.
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Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
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Don't bend don't water it down don't try to make it logical don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share.---Forward to Kafka's Short stories
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We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
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I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
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I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
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Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.
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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
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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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What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, I will never do that again.
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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I assume I don't need an introduction.
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