Top 100 Quotes About Anne Rice
#1. I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
Lorraine Toussaint
#2. The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.
Deborah Harkness
#4. Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
Janet Maslin
#5. The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean."
"Who's-"
"Because you're gay.
David Wong
#6. Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?"
"What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.
Jeaniene Frost
#7. I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
Rachel Caine
#8. There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I'm not sure there's ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to 'Twilight.'
Holly Black
#9. Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do.
James Marsters
#10. Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess she didn't know how much she talked or how much I listen.
Stephen Chbosky
#11. I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.
Holly Black
#12. Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.
John Debney
#13. People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.
Kevin Brockmeier
#14. All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.
Besides me, of course.
J.R. Rain
#15. Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
Anne Rice
#16. There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
Anne Rice
#17. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#18. she seemed to me an intriguing soul clothed
Anne Rice
#19. 'She's an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive who has shared that time with you. You fear that, the isolation of it, the burden, the scope of eternal life.
Anne Rice
#20. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
Anne Rice
#21. That was the test of love, he thought dreamily, when you can't bear to be this happy without the other person with you.
Anne Rice
#22. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#23. His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.
Anne Rice
#24. I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.
Anne Rice
#25. She'd rinsed and dried the romaine lettuce with paper towels.
Anne Rice
#26. 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.
Anne Rice
#27. You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.
Anne Rice
#28. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
Anne Rice
#29. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender.
Anne Rice
#30. Tis the gift to be simple ... 'Tis the gift to be free ...
Anne Rice
#31. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.
Anne Rice
#32. People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.
Anne Rice
#33. 90. Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.
Anne Rice
#34. It was from Dionysus, the wine god, that the theater came.
Anne Rice
#35. Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.
Anne Rice
#36. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
Anne Rice
#37. Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
Anne Rice
#38. When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.
Anne Rice
#39. A finely carved Black Forest cuckoo clock hung just to the right of the hutch. Phil would love that, Reuben thought. Phil had once collected cuckoo clocks, and their constant chiming and tweeting and cooing had driven everybody at home a little nuts.
Anne Rice
#40. When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Anne Rice
#41. Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
Anne Rice
#42. He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
Anne Rice
#43. You cannot conceive of the magnitude of this mystery." He spoke in a confidential whisper. "You cannot conceive of this complexity." He was saying these words as if he'd just discovered them. He wept. I swear it. He wept.
Anne Rice
#44. I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.
Anne Rice
#45. The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As
Anne Rice
#46. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.
Anne Rice
#47. His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand's shoulder, feeling Armand's hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand's voice: What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.
Anne Rice
#48. I see." said the vampire thoughtfully.
Anne Rice
#49. memory is desperate to leave us. Memory knows that we cannot endure its company. Memory would reduce us to fools.
Anne Rice
#50. So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?
Anne Rice
#51. Also, I thought, I can always delay the murder. . . . I can let my mind have this company it craves and I can always kill him later on. But I'm sure you know such reasoning is false, because once we grow to love a person, we are not likely to want that person's death.
Anne Rice
#52. All you can do, he thought, is fight to stay alive, to stay conscious, to remain a witness and hope somehow there is a meaning to it.
Anne Rice
#53. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
Anne Rice
#54. My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Anne Rice
#55. I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
Anne Rice
#56. And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach!
Anne Rice
#57. It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.
Anne Rice
#58. Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
Anne Rice
#59. No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.
Anne Rice
#60. I stumble through a carnival of horrors
Anne Rice
#61. Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.
Anne Rice
#62. Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
Anne Rice
#63. I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning ... rather than one great dull answer to all our questions
Anne Rice
#64. That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.
Anne Rice
#65. You are the night, and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms
Anne Rice
#66. Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.
Rice Anne
#67. His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me.
I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm,
I knew again what peace could be.
Anne Rice
#68. Beside him walked a vampire nearly as old as Gregory, and indeed this one was none other than Seth, the son of the ancient Mother.
Anne Rice
#69. 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.
Anne Rice
#71. Remember, Rose, whatever you've suffered, no matter how bad it's been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.
Anne Rice
#72. Lestat, you are the damnedest creature!' he whispered under his breath. 'You are a brat prince.
Anne Rice
#73. He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.
Anne Rice
#74. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Anne Rice
#75. But joy, the joy you've known, the love you've known, that is what matters, and we, the conscious ones, the ones who can grieve, only we can know joy.
Anne Rice
#76. I admitted I was afraid of the very idea, as afraid as a mortal might have been of designing offspring genetically to enter certain branches of the arts or certain professions.
Anne Rice
#77. A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
Anne Rice
#78. That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Anne Rice
#79. My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate
Julie Anne Peters
#80. He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to figure out the world in which he lived. And
Anne Rice
#81. The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never come.
Anne Rice
#82. He walks the earth with the power to destroy it. But then so does the human race. And
Anne Rice
#83. I don't really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero - that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.
Anne Rice
#84. He thought of the Englishman at the bar in the lobby again. That's what had brought it all back - the Englishman remarking to the bartender that he'd just come from New Orleans, and that certainly was a haunted city.
Anne Rice
#85. He was tired and full of shame, and if Ernestino and the others wouldn't brave this rain, he would go it alone, he would find some place to sing, some place where, anonymous and numbed by drink, he could sing until he had forgotten everything.
Anne Rice
#86. Fear and music and blood and pain. That was still his existence.
Anne Rice
#87. I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don't bother to sell it to another human being. It's bad business to even consider such a thing.
Anne Rice
#89. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
Anne Rice
#90. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
Anne Rice
#91. And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.
Anne Rice
#92. A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
Anne Rice
#93. The second thing I believe is that all of us would be human again if we could.
Anne Rice
#94. I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.
Anne Rice
#95. What a miracle, I thought. One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Why, I had, with this simple gesture, actually increased the sum total of light in the universe, had I not?
Anne Rice
#96. 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.
Anne Rice
#97. We would make our heroes shallow ... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
Anne Rice
#98. You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that's why you're happy.
Anne Rice
#99. Put out the light and then put out the light.
Anne Rice
#100. Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me. "No. I know what to do; haven't I done it in the past?" I said to her.
Anne Rice
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