Anne Rice Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Creative Juices, Want

• 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 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

  Anne Rice

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

  "Anne Rice", www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2008.

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Risk, Literature

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

• 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 gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

  Anne Rice

  Block, Reading, Writing

• 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 them.

  Anne Rice

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.38, Ballantine Books

• 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

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Literature, Enough

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

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Writing, Darkness

• 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 T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Guy

• 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 have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Character

• 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 because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

  Anne Rice

  Meaningful, Writing, Thinking

• 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 situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

• 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

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

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Writing, Sometimes

• I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Vampire, Ghost

  Source: chicagoist.com

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Impossible, Knows

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

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Lord

  "Anne Rice Puts Stake in Vampire Tales", www.foxnews.com. October 24, 2005.

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

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Narrators

• As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

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  Beautiful, Daughter, Children

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

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  Writing, Different, Literature

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

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  Writing, Decision, Safe

• 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 to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "'Fifty Shades of Grey' shines light on erotic fan fiction" By Stephanie Goldberg, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

• 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 yourself.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Typewriters, People

• People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Thinking, People

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