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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

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The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Original...more

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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

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But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.”“Wha...more

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Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it an...more

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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothin...more

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I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

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You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good f...more