Anne Rice Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.”

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

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

“The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.”

“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.”

“That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”