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 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.
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.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.
... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.
I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.
I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.
Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?