My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You make life when you play,” I said. “You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden” — 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
“I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad—for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did… — 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
And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The great adventure of our lives. What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion—of our own kind, of all humankind,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless… — 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
“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That one, there,” Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If only we would wake from (these) states of oblivion with some certain sense that there was no mystery to life at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“In all my life,” Ernestino said, “I have never heard a voice like that. God has touched you, Signore. But sing while… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary… — 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
