43 Quotes by Anne Rice
Anne Rice is an American author who is best known for her popular series of novels, "The Vampire Chronicles." Her writing is known for its lush, Gothic style and its exploration of dark, supernatural themes. Rice's books have sold millions of copies worldwide, and she has been credited with popularizing the vampire genre in modern literature. Her work has been both praised and criticized for its explicit sexuality and its portrayal of controversial themes such as religion and immortality. (Bio)
Anne Rice Quotes
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. (Meaning)
Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. (Meaning)
Evil is just a point of view
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.
We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
The human heart is my school.
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.
The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
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
We're frightened of what makes us different.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.
I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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.
I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.
The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
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
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
Every moment must be first known and then savored.
I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.
― Anne Rice Quotes
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