That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don’t have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. – Anne Rice
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
I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. – Anne Rice
It is tragic that many in America think of us – Christians – as being people who hate others. – Anne Rice
Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. – Anne Rice
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t. – Anne Rice
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. – Anne Rice
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
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
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. – Anne Rice
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
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
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
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
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
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. – Anne Rice
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
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
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
