Anne Rice Quotes

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

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.

The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.