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Anne Rice
October 4, 1941 -
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

   

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.

   

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

   

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

   

I broke with my religion in college.

   

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

   

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

   

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

   

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.

   

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

   

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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