Anne Rice
Anne Rice
Anne Riceis an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 October 1941
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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.
I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.