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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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