Book Quotes by Anne Rice

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

— Anne Rice

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

— Anne Rice

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

— Anne Rice

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

— Anne Rice

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you…

— Anne Rice

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that…

— Anne Rice

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,…

— Anne Rice

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a…

— Anne Rice

“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books,…

— Anne Rice

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time.…

— Anne Rice

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,…

— Anne Rice

“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only…

— Anne Rice

I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument,…

— Anne Rice

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

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch…

— Anne Rice

“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw…

— Anne Rice

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way…

— Anne Rice

“Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his…

— Anne Rice

Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write…

— Anne Rice

“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil…

— Anne Rice