Howard Allen O'Brien (Anne) Rice
Born: 4 October 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana
The second daughter in an Irish Catholic family, she was christened with her father's name: Howard Allen O'Brien. When her mother took her to school for the first time a nun asked her her name, she said "Anne" and her mother didn't correct her. She lost her mother to alcoholism when she was about thirteen, in 1958 when she was sixteen she moved with her father and sister to Richardson, Texas where she graduated from Richardson High School. She enrolled at Texas Woman's University at Denton, then moved to North Texas State College, and finished her B.A. in political science at San Francisco State University. Stan Rice, who she met at Richardson High, earned his M.A. at San Francisco State, married Anne, and became an instructor at their alma mater. They lived in Haight Ashbury through the 'sixties, then in Berkeley, before returning to New Orleans in 1988. They had a daughter in 1966 who would die shortly before her sixth birthday of leukemia. Ann wrote Interview with a Vampire in 1973, it was published in 1976, the first of ten novels in The Vampire Chronicles series. She has also written another twenty novels. In 1998 she announced that she was returning to the Roman Catholic Church and in 2002 said she was consecrating her future writing to Christ. Stan died of brain cancer, also in 2002. In July of 2010, having written several books on Christian themes, she announced that although her Christian faith was strong, frustration with intolerance in churches led her to quit Christianity.
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- A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note ... but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. permalink
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat (1985) - As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. permalink
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat (1985) - But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one. permalink
Anne Rice - Pandora (1998) - Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good! permalink
Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned (1988) - Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. permalink
Anne Rice - Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on. permalink
Anne Rice - Every moment must be first known and then savored. permalink
Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire (1976) - Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. permalink
Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire (1976) - For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else. permalink
Anne Rice - Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. permalink
Anne Rice - His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet. permalink
Anne Rice - Taltos (1994) - How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. permalink
Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire (1976) - I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. permalink
Anne Rice - I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. permalink
Anne Rice - The Queen of the Damned (1988) - I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment.... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction. permalink
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