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