Anne Rice Quotes About Books

• Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

  Anne Rice

  Libro, Hombres, Dar

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.353, Ballantine Books

• 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

  Kings, Book, Reading

• And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Fall, Might

  Anne Rice (2002). “Blackwood Farm”, Knopf

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

  Anne Rice

  Book, Curiosity, Madness

• My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

  Anne Rice

  Jobs, Book, Hero

• If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Guy

• There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Mean

• Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Character

• You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Book, Down And

• What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Handsome, Heavy

• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Libro, Escritura, Personaje

• Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

• He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

  Anne Rice

  Libro, Lectura, Largo

  Anne Rice (2012). “The Wolf Gift”, p.373, Random House

• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

• The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Book, Ambition

• Los narradores en primera persona es la forma que conozco de escribir un libro con más fuerza y posibilidades de éxito artístico.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Narrators

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