…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,… — 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
I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my… — 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
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“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 Image
