First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — 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
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a… — 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
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
He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,… — 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
I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — 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
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
“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
“Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his… — 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
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil… — 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
