Anne Rice Quotes - Page 4

• Anne Rice / Author

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

• Anne Rice / Author

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

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

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And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

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No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

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

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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

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

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We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

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Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

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Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

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I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

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

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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

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

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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

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

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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

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Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

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Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

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Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

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

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Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

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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.

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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

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For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

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

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I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

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I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

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I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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

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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.

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I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

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

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For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

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The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

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

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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.