The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I am the Vampire Lestat, and nothing … not even this mortal body … is going to defeat me.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands! — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.” — 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
“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
Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to… — 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
“The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I walked black streets… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“You know nothing,' she said to him gravely, her voice so low that the slightest noise from the street interrupted it, might… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue Royale, 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
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this… — 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 feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth. — 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
