Interview with Anne Rice: A Conversation between Anne Rice and Michael Riley (Abridged)

This conversation with Anne Rice shows how she*emerged from high school determined not to get married unless she could complete her education and achieve creative freedom. Responding to interviewer Riley's questions, Rice discusses how her religious background influenced her work, which she describes as a spiritual quest. In fact, the ghosts she often writes about are memories from the past, she claims, that have come back to haunt her. She credits vampires with helping to solve her own you...