Books Quotes by Anne Rice

“Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this…

— Anne Rice

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

— 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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

— 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

“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was…

— 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

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

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took…

— Anne Rice

“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe…

— 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

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some…

— 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

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner…

— Anne Rice

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,…

— 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

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

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I…

— 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

“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

“If you read this, read it for that reason that Lestat is talking again, that he is frightened, that he is searching…

— Anne Rice

“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and 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

“I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.”

— Anne Rice

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very…

— Anne Rice

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to…

— Anne Rice

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

— 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

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

— 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