Anne Rice Quotes
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. Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. I broke with my religion in college. I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. I can't keep up with Stephen King's output. I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. 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. I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
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