Want Quotes by Anne Rice

19 Want quotes by Anne Rice

Rice’s darkly poetic voice turns Want into a haunting companion. In these 19 excerpts, you’ll feel the pulse of longing echo through shadowed narratives.

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When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

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“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

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You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are…

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You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need…

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What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe…

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Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give…

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I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide.…

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DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to…

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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay…

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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…

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I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests,…

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I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to…

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The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for…

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If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you…

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But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the…

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I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that…

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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had…

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

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All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and…

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How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my…

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“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your…

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

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

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

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I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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

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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…

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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…

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