"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."
-Anne Rice
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"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.“
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"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."
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"I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians."
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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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"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."
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"I broke with my religion in college."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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