If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

Anne Rice

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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

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I love the one who punishes me well. by Anne Rice

I love the one who punishes me well.

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass. by Anne Rice

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully wh... by Anne Rice

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

changes-over-time vampire-lestat lestat

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am.... by Anne Rice

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

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We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment... by Anne Rice

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

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The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the nat... by Anne Rice

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

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Strong women are absolutely unpredictable. by Anne Rice

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to... by Anne Rice

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we h... by Anne Rice

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

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When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

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In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

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Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

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Evil is just a point of view by Anne Rice

Evil is just a point of view

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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.

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