Quotes by Writing I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord. Anne Rice lordwriting I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes. Anne Rice writingcharacterthinking 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 typewriterswritingpeople If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6- Anne Rice guywritingbook 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 writingcharacterbook First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Anne Rice narratorswritingbook I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic. Anne Rice vampireghostwriting People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document. Anne Rice writingpeoplethinking Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. Anne Rivers Siddons typewriterswritingbook It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. Anne Rivers Siddons unimaginablewritinglittles Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it. Anne Roiphe writingchildrenpeople I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds. Anne Roiphe choicesreadingwriting What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter. Anne Roiphe writingpeoplethinking Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does. Anne Roiphe doewritingart I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint. Anne Roiphe daughterwritingtwo It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again. Anne Roiphe d-daywritingwar My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good. Anne Roiphe motherwritingbook I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all. Anne Roiphe madwritingthinking We are all writing God's poem. Anne Sexton godwriting It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it. Anne Sexton selfwritingbelieve«8687888990919293949596»
