Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of… — anne rice Copy Share
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can… — Anne Rice Copy Share
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If… — Anne Rice Copy Share
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that… — Anne Rice Copy Share
