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Anne Rice Quotes
American - Novelist Born: October 4, 1941
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
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
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
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
Anne Rice
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice
We're frightened of what makes us different.
Anne Rice
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Anne Rice
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.
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
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
Anne Rice
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Anne Rice
I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
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
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 was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
Anne Rice
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Anne Rice
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Anne Rice
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.
Anne Rice
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.
Anne Rice
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out
in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the
double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Anne Rice
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
Anne Rice
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
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'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
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
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
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
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 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
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
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
Anne Rice
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Anne Rice
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
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
I broke with my religion in college.
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
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
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
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.
Anne Rice
Susan Sarandon Quotes
American - Actress Born: October 4, 1946
To
know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits
of just your world and start to understand that you can make a
difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to
bigger world problems.
Susan Sarandon
I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.
Susan Sarandon
Just
because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock
it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to
their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.
Susan Sarandon
It
is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to
just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it
together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of
things and leading really important movements.
Susan Sarandon
I
think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I
never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities
that make for an activist.
Susan Sarandon
If you walk down
the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is
either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an
extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and
not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
Susan Sarandon
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
Children reinvent your world for you.
Susan Sarandon
We
stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more
people before he gets into office than any president in the history of
the United States.
Susan Sarandon
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
Susan Sarandon
I
think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control
manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating
disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going
to be the solution to all the pressure.
Susan Sarandon
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
Susan Sarandon
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
Susan Sarandon
Everyone
has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially
if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
Susan Sarandon
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
Susan Sarandon
Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Susan Sarandon
It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.
Susan Sarandon
Before
our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and
children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Susan Sarandon
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
Susan Sarandon
In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
Susan Sarandon
It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.
Susan Sarandon
The
only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do
not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see
my house, it's a mess.
Susan Sarandon
The only time I've
really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance
because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years
that I haven't been with my kids.
Susan Sarandon
Now, Tim
has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal
with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that,
logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much
easier.
Susan Sarandon
So I would hope they would develop
some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so
full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I
consider that to be baseline spirituality.
Susan Sarandon
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
Susan Sarandon
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
Susan Sarandon
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