Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.
Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.
Vampires are a genre now.
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