Anne Rice Quotes

Anne Rice (60)

Birth:	4th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

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• I was good and bad, but never wicked.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Inspirational

• Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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

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• The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

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  The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.

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• And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire’s arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

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

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• I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.

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• When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

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• Obviously, a writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible.

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• You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t.

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• I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

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• We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

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• I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them.

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• The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis’s quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

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• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

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• The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They’ve always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

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• Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

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• I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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• Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he’s not spoken of enough.

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