Anne Rice Quotes

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by ...

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Lo...

The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...

It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet th...

Malady of mortality

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reaso...

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look...

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

In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an o...

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

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

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance h...

The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own ...

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real group...

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, somethin...

As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him fro...

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give i...

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Well, I am no village cunning woman, no frightened merry-begot, but a woman born to riches, andeduca...

What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembr...

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requ...

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

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals wh...

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand th...

Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to ...

Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed t...

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.

We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of ...

I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...

I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you ar...

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he s...

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and f...

But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.“Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes...

And do stop trying to determine if I am a man or a woman. The fact is I'm a good part both and there...

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a sha...

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the ...

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginn...

But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies....

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory ...

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire l...

You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’s wh...

And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there ...

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

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly...

Killing is no ordinary act,' said the vampire. 'One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.' He shook ...

You do not know your vampire nature. You are like an adult who, looking back on his childhood, reali...

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the speci...

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that consci...

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my qui...

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had t...

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under ...

... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell ...

It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the...

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God ...

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity...

I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from her...

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures li...

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a ...

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was hom...

Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal ...

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthra...

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

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into ...

Your body's dying...pay no attention

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die ...

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never d...

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

Let the flesh instruct the mind.

...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reaso...

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds y...

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...

Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was...

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into ...

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not ...

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all ...

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed...

For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end p...

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.