Anne Rice

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

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

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

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.

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.

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.

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.

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

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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

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.

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.

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.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

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?

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

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

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.