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

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

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Anne Rice

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

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

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

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

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

Anne Rice

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

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

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