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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

Anne Rice

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.

Anne Rice

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

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

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

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.

Anne Rice

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Anne Rice

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

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.

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

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 only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

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

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.

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

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

Anne Rice

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.

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 love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Anne Rice

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.

Anne Rice

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

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

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

Anne Rice

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

Anne Rice

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.

Anne Rice

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

Anne Rice

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Anne Rice

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Anne Rice

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

Anne Rice

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice