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Christopher Rice, born on March 11, 1978, is an accomplished author from the United States. His works span across genres such as horror, fantasy, and literary fiction, gaining him a dedicated fan base.

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“... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...”

Author:Christopher Rice

“You can leave. You just don't want to. And the more you give in to that urge, the more you'll come to believe the lies you're telling yourself about what you are and aren't capable of.”

Reality Of Life

Book:Bone Music

Source: Bone Music

“But in general, who’s to say what’s not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, “Is it too gay?”

Author:Christopher Rice

“'I went to one acting coach when I first started who told me that acting is reacting to the stimuli we are presented with. Does that make sense?' John nodded. 'But really, that's life now, isn't it? Because we are not a product of where we came from or what was done to us. We are what we choose to be in every situation that God delivers. And that's why when a thing of beauty enters my life, I rise to the occasion with everything I have. Some people are humbled by beautiful things, John. I'm not. I'm inspired. I go after them with everything I have. Everything.'”

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Author:Christopher Rice

“The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.”

Culture Race Accepting Color Good Things Excess New Orleans Eccentricity

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“Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.”

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“My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.”

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Author:Christopher Rice

“I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.”

Thinking Believe Different Fall Scales Different Place Kinsey

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“I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.”

Mean Made Decision Needed Gender Partners Live Life Homosexual Exclusive Elitist

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“Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.”

Way Bigs Kids School Felt Creative Gay High School Female Aspect Theatre Fortunate Sensitive Being Gay

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“I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.”

Thinking Has Beens Term Challenges Honest Willing Ultimate Relation Traditional Being Honest

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“The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.”

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Author:Christopher Rice

“I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.”

Thinking Loss Influence Longing Thrillers

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“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.”

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Author:Christopher Rice

“I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.”

Thinking Sometimes Reality Views Produce Perspective Unique Borders Outsiders

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“It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.”

Writing Character Gay

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“I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.”

Ifs Feels Writing Believe I Believe Fiction Notion Realism

Author:Christopher Rice

“I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.”

Want Wells Done Wanted Social Fiction Gay Entertainment Mainstream Chronicles

Author:Christopher Rice

“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.”

People Writing Self Moving Goal Chance Focus Havens Conscious Increase Plot Ironic Self Conscious Characterization Pacing

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“I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.”

Thinking Way Needs Wells Reality Fiction Truth Is Surface Beneath The Surface

Author:Christopher Rice

“I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.”

Thinking Persons Important Reason Figures Terrible Sanity Closets Public Figures

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“I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Persons Whole Would Be Asks Community Roles Figures Gay Closets Our Community Profile Gay Community High Profile Slighted

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“I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.”

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“What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.”

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“I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.”

People Thinking Gay Honestly Contribution Gay People

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“If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.”

Ifs Needs Psychology Following Bliss Healed Discrepancies

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“If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.”

Ifs Dream Asks Down And Who You Are Following Odds Slow Down

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“I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.”

Thinking Differences Struggle Rights Gay Profound Civil Rights African American

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“I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.”

People May Wish Bars Closets Biased

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“I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.”

People Young Names Situation Dangerous Sexually Refrain Dangerous Situations

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“I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.”

People Want Giving Young Sex Worry Judging

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“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”

“Fear cannot touch me… It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to go… I can either follow, Or stay in my bed… I can hold on To the things that I know… The dead stay dead, They cannot walk. The shadows are darkness. And darkness cannot talk”

Knows I Can Fear Walks Darkness Bed Shadow Take Me Touch Me Taunting

Book:A Density of Souls

Source: A Density of Souls

“Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.”

Beautiful Clean Mess Beautiful Mess

Author:Christopher Rice

“Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.”

Looks Memories Cities Former Battlefields Graveyard

Book:Blind Fall: A Novel

Source: Blind Fall: A Novel

“This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.”

International Genre Thrillers Thriller Genre

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Born: March 11, 1978
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