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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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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

Power, Religion, Reason

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Power, Influence, Responsibility, Truth

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Power, Failure

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Power, Magic, Awakening, Inspirational

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Power, Man, State

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Power, Weakness, Resistance, Control

Explore more quotes by Anne Rice

"As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow."

Loss

"Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait."

Personality

"I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste."

Present

"I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh."

Humor

"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

Honesty

"Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven."

Morality

"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."

Inspirational

"I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach..."

Wisdom

"Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum."

Strength

"All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid."

Fear