The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead. — Anne Rice Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I’m ashamed, ashamed that I want you and that it sustains me to think, just to think, that because of all you’ve… — Anne Rice Ashamed Copy Share Image
“All over the lawn, the immortals had begun to wither and decompose, creating little pockets of chaos among the guests.” — Anne Rice Chaos Copy Share Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Artistic Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice Beautiful Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Ambition Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad—for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did… — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look… — Anne Rice Bears Copy Share Image
It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot… — Anne Rice Agendas Copy Share Image
But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out… — Anne Rice Cry Copy Share Image
“Look, let me tell you something, Satan, or whoever you are.” “Don’t use that name, I hate it.” “That’s likely to make… — Anne Rice Communication Copy Share Image
“With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I recounted… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards me. "No. I know what to… — Anne Rice Anne-rice Copy Share Image
“God is a creative force, Lestat. And so are we. He told Adam, 'Increase and multiply.' That's what the first organic cells… — Anne Rice Creation Copy Share Image
“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot… — Anne Rice Evil Copy Share Image
“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find the answer as to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“That one, there,” Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that,… — Anne Rice Assassin Copy Share Image
I think there is a modern temper. The authority figures we revered in the past are all up for grabs - they're… — Anne Rice Authority Copy Share Image
“...his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly… — Anne Rice Faith Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Absurdity Copy Share Image
You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself! — Anne Rice Devil Copy Share Image
It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that’s all. But life is more important than death.” — Anne Rice Death Copy Share Image
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. — Anne Rice Atheism Copy Share Image
It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell her what it had been like, those few days. But I think she knew. Something magical had been lost… — Anne Rice Heart Copy Share Image
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept… — Anne Rice Beach Copy Share Image
And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it… — Anne Rice Breath Copy Share Image
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. — Anne Rice British 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 Attitude Copy Share Image
We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image