American - Novelist | October 4, 1941 -
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.
Anne Rice
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
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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.
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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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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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