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

- 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

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

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

- Anne Rice

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

- Anne Rice

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

- 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

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.

- Anne Rice

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

- Anne Rice

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

- Anne Rice

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

- Anne Rice

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

- Anne Rice

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

- Anne Rice

I broke with my religion in college.

- Anne Rice

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.

- Anne Rice

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

- 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

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?

- Anne Rice

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

- Anne Rice