You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you do not know everything about it. You can't.- Anne Rice
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list do not know each other very well.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers do not come together in real groups.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
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.
We're frightened of what makes us different.
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.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
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.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
