Anne Rice Quotes

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

My body is no schoolboy.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

But death we are, and death we've always been.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.

The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

Evil is a point of view.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.