Anne Rice

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. ↗

— Anne Rice

#become #christ #enough #less #like

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. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. ↗

— Anne Rice

#any #feel #felt #group #i

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. ↗

— Anne Rice

#groups #may #meet #occasional #own

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bets #mediocrity #more #need #world

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

— Anne Rice

#pain #pleasure

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. ↗

— Anne Rice

#become #group #like #lonely #might

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

— Anne Rice

#been #christian #essence #evangelists #form

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#everything #impossible #know #obviously #she

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. ↗

— Anne Rice

#double #flowers #funeral #house #i