{"author":"Anne Rice","author_id":"Anne+Rice","total_quotes":225,"quotes":[{"text":"On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. — Ignore critics. Critics are a dime a dozen. Anybody can be a critic. Writers are priceless. — 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. Good luck.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["critics","writing-advice","writing-life"],"id":386,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["acting","actors","actresses","anne-rice","create","creative","lestat-de-lioncourt","magic","stage","the-vampire-chronicles","the-vampire-lestat","theater"],"id":1527,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["death","living","rage","torment"],"id":3366,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"But there is no value to suffering!","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["suffering"],"id":5273,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"I was good and bad, but never wicked.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["applys-to-me","inspirational"],"id":7161,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["lestat-de-lioncourt","vampire"],"id":8374,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["evil"],"id":9300,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["point-of-view","writing"],"id":11493,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["lestat","vampire"],"id":13277,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"You let me handle Marius,' I said. 'Now, you didn't come without you dagger.'No, I did not,' he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, 'And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!'Permission denied.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","humor","marius","pandora","vampires"],"id":15957,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":225,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}