Anne Rice Quotes (140 Quotes)


    It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

    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.

    I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

    I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

    I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.


    I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

    I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

    The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

    We're frightened of what makes us different.

    I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

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

    My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

    Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

    Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

    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?

    Speak to me of the dark gifts, I use them, Im gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles.

    People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

    What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

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

    Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

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

    That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

    When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

    I was particularly stunned by the casting of Tom Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

    I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

    I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

    There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

    This musical is the fulfillment of my deepest dreams. Elton's music and Bernie's lyrics have captured the pain and the passion of the characters perfectly, and the entire adaptation has re-created the very essence of the books.

    I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

    I want to know, for example, why beauty exists, she said, why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

    I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

    I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

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

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

    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.

    So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting.

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

    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.

    I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.


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