Anne Rice Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Book, Reading

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Risk, Literature

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

  Anne Rice

  Reality, Evil, Literature

• 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 write.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Ghouls, Years

• The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

  Anne Rice

  Needs, Mediocrity, Literature

• It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Hate, Thinking

• What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

  Anne Rice

  Jesus, Character, Son

• When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

  Anne Rice

  Sexy, Lunch, Sandwiches

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

  Anne Rice

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Literature, Enough

• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  Anne Rice

  Doors, Answers, Literature

  "The Vampire Lestat". Book by Anne Rice, 1985.

• I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

  Anne Rice

  Umpires, Soul, Secret

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

• I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

  Anne Rice

  Groups, Literature, Outsiders

• I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Buddhist, Children

• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, Literature

• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Jobs, Fighting

• I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

  Anne Rice

  Asking Questions, Asking, Literature

• 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 a desire to meet a challenge.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Character

• I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Never Quit, Way

• People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, People, Evil

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.28, Ballantine Books

• I broke with my religion in college.

  Anne Rice

  College, Literature, Broke

• I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

  Anne Rice

  Angel, Saint, Literature

• I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Leader, Catholic

• I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Hands, People

• I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

  Anne Rice

  Greek, Literature, Study

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