I’d loved the satin lining of the box. I’d loved the…

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

— Anne Rice

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

— Anne Rice

“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”

— Anne Rice

“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

— Anne Rice

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

— Anne Rice

“Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.”

— Anne Rice

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

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