Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen Kings books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. – Anne Rice
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. – Anne Rice
I claim Dickens as a mentor. Hes my teacher. Hes one of my driving forces. – Anne Rice
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers dont come together in real groups. – Anne Rice
True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you dont know how to read, you dont know how to decide. Thats the great thing about our country – were a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. – Ray Bradbury