You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself! — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself! — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Yet their whispers slithered around me. And those scents, ah, not a one was like another. And as clearly as if spoken… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He glanced up at me and then the figure who was questioning him, and I struggled, because I couldn’t help it, to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He smiled suddenly and he looked as if he couldn’t hurt anyone for the world. He was too attractive, too friendly, too… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But the old Italian commedia that I loved—Pantaloon, Harlequin, Scaramouche, and the rest—lived on as they always had, with tightrope walkers, acrobats,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Also there was something vampiric about rock music. It must have sounded supernatural even to those who don’t believe in the supernatural.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He glanced at me again, a flash of brilliant eyes and a smile that was gone in an instant as I looked… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of… — anne rice Copy Share
“there are only two things which I believe—the first is that no mortal can refuse the Dark Gift once he really knows what it… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can… — Anne Rice Copy Share
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If… — Anne Rice Copy Share
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your… — Anne Rice Copy Share
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
“Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.” — Anne Rice Copy Share
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my… — Anne Rice Copy Share
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… — Anne Rice Copy Share