Anne Rice Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”
-- Anne Rice

#Perspective #Perception #Different

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
-- Anne Rice

#Changes Over Time

“And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”
-- Anne Rice

#Self #Long #Doubt

“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.”
-- Anne Rice

#Book #Men #Giving

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
-- Anne Rice

#Powerful #Inspiring Writing

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

#Halloween #Might #Hell

“Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”
-- Anne Rice

#Perfect #Devil #Feels

“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.”
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Creative #Juice

“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.”
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Ghouls #Years

“That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.”
-- Anne Rice

#Temptation #Sin

“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

#Heaven #Library #Dull

“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.”
-- Anne Rice

#Inspirational #Life #Writing

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
-- Anne Rice

#Grief #Mean #Eye

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
-- Anne Rice

#Mean #Names

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”
-- Anne Rice

#Children #Home #Devil

“Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.”
-- Anne Rice

#Heart #Paris #Promise

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
-- Anne Rice

#Happiness #Laughter #Perfect

“Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.”
-- Anne Rice

#Pain #Pleasure

“I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.”
-- Anne Rice

#Vampire #Cards #Helping

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
-- Anne Rice

#Depth #Hell #Demon

“Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.”
-- Anne Rice

#Block #Reading #Writing

“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”
-- Anne Rice

#Selfish #Heaven #Soul

“I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.”
-- Anne Rice

#Angel #Saint #Literature

“I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?”
-- Anne Rice

#Beautiful #Religious #World

“As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.”
-- Anne Rice

#Christian #Mother #Osiris

“Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.”
-- Anne Rice

#Reality #Evil #Literature

“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”
-- Anne Rice

#Too Much #Enough

“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.”
-- Anne Rice

#Children #Sight #Vampire

“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.”
-- Anne Rice

#Book #Fall #Might

“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Risk #Literature