Writing Quotes by Anne Rice

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

— Anne Rice

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

— Anne Rice

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

— Anne Rice

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

— Anne Rice

“Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!”

— Anne Rice

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

— Anne Rice

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the…

— Anne Rice

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

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

— Anne Rice

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

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took…

— Anne Rice

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens…

— Anne Rice

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at…

— Anne Rice

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you…

— Anne Rice

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,…

— Anne Rice

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in…

— Anne Rice

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it.…

— Anne Rice

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I…

— Anne Rice

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

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

“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their…

— Anne Rice

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,…

— Anne Rice

Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write…

— Anne Rice

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity…

— Anne Rice

“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil…

— Anne Rice

As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the…

— Anne Rice

“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.…

— Anne Rice

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

— Anne Rice

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

— Anne Rice

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list…

— Anne Rice

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

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

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to…

— Anne Rice

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch…

— Anne Rice