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Anne Rice Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1941

Topics

Success Power Book Chance Know Way

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.

Live Night Saturday Doors Say Right

Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.

Robert Silverberg

Work Time Day Words Lunch Story

You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.

Me Trying You Conversation Know

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Wisdom Day Busy Harvest Corn Must

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Robbie Coltrane

Eyes People Speak Thought You Know

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.

Me Believe Fox Hire Minute Would

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Power Calmness Cradle

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

College Motivation Place Know Top

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

Government Safety Security Role

I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.

Timothy Bottoms

Anything Administration Heard Anyone

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

Tim Hetherington

Story You Journalism Want Whatever

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

Experience Original Star Jaws Wars

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