 First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. |
| To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. |
| When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. |
| To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. |
| The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. |
| 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? |
| I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. |
| 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. |
| It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. |
| 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. |
| I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. |
| I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? |
| Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. |
| 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. |
