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Writing Quotes by Anne Rice
- Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of…
- When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
- 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 readers…
- Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what…
- If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you…
- When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
- Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
- To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
- The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to…
- Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by…
- First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
- I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
- I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing…
- There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by…
- 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 put on a…
- Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you…
- Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very…
- I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov