Anne Rice

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

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

Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.