To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. – Anne Rice
I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that. – Anne Rice
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? – Anne Rice
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don’t come together in real groups. – Anne Rice
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? – Anne Rice
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
I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them. – Anne Rice
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don’t know each other very well. – Anne Rice
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
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. – Anne Rice
My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. – Anne Rice
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn’t work out. – Anne Rice
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
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough. – Anne Rice
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. – Anne Rice
