Outbursts like this suggest that Rice can be thin-skinned and they also underline the extreme seriousness with which she takes her writing. And Rice has never been more serious than she is about Christ. ''I'm united in soul and mind and heart,'' she says. ''I felt in the vampire novels that I was writing from behind a mask. This feels so much more exciting. It's like being reborn, to use the cliché. Now I can close my eyes at night and say, You did what you wanted to do.'' *
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