Quotes by Anne Rice

About Anne Rice:

Anne Rice is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.
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What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Anne Rice

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.

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The horror was this: the others.

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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 truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

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

Anne Rice

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Anne Rice

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.

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In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

Anne Rice

Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive.

Anne Rice

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

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Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

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I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

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But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving to make a difference when no difference could poss...

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Não importava que Deus no céu fosse católico, protestante ou hindu. O que importava era uma coisa mais profunda, mais antiga e mais forte do que qualquer imagem dessas: um conceito do bem baseado na afirmação da vida, na repulsa à destruição,...

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She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothin...

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And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing...

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She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing.

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Lasher,’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

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What women hate is when you turn cold to them. If you treat them like queens, they’ll let you have a concubine or two outside the palace.

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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.

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What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnne Rice
  • DescriptionAmerican author of gothic fiction
  • AliasesAnne O'Brien
  • BornOctober 4, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist