110+ Anne Rice Quotes On Writing, Death And Mystic

Anne Rice is an American novelist who has written a number of books in the horror, fantasy, and historical fiction genres. She is best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, which revolve around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt. Her most recent novel, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, was released in 2016. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Anne Rice on writing, death, love.

Top 10 Anne Rice Quotes

1. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
2. Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.
3. I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
4. Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
5. -You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
6. Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
7. None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
8. When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
9. Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
10. Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

Anne Rice Short Quotes

• We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
• But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
• And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
• I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
• I stumble through a carnival of horrors
• I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think
• As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
• And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
• I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

Anne Rice Quotes About Writing

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. — Anne Rice

The only power that exists is inside ourselves. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. — Anne Rice

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

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes. — Anne Rice

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Death

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice

Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt. — Anne Rice

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? — Anne Rice

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer. — Anne Rice

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death — Anne Rice

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow. — Anne Rice

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. — Anne Rice

The one thing you share with every mortal is death. — Anne Rice

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Love

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 — Anne Rice

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

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places. — Anne Rice

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

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. — Anne Rice

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other. — Anne Rice

Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. — Anne Rice

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

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius — Anne Rice

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another? — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Life

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. — Anne Rice

His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be. — Anne Rice

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. — Anne Rice

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

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies. — Anne Rice

I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life. — Anne Rice

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters. — Anne Rice

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Evil

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. — Anne Rice

Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end. — Anne Rice

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice

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

Perhaps this is the only real evil left. — Anne Rice

I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am? — Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. — Anne Rice

Evil is a point of view. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Beauty

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. — Anne Rice

I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc. — Anne Rice

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice

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

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. — Anne Rice

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. — Anne Rice

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. — Anne Rice

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You. — Anne Rice

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers — Anne Rice

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes About Eternally

Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not only believe the world will end soon, but are looking forward to it. I MUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. IN JESUS' NAME. — Anne Rice

I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God. — Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice Quotes About World

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. — Anne Rice

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? — Anne Rice

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

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief. — Anne Rice

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

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

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. — Anne Rice

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? — Anne Rice

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. — Anne Rice

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time. — Anne Rice

Anne Rice Famous Quotes And Sayings

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. — Anne Rice

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. — Anne Rice

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. — Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. — Anne Rice

In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen. — Anne Rice

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. — Anne Rice

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

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became. — Anne Rice

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes. — Anne Rice

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. — Anne Rice

I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam. — Anne Rice

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking. — Anne Rice

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it. — Anne Rice

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. — Anne Rice

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was? — Anne Rice

Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler. — Anne Rice

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face. — Anne Rice

Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful. — Anne Rice

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground. — Anne Rice

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. — Anne Rice

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. — Anne Rice

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh. — Anne Rice

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

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. — Anne Rice

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. — Anne Rice

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. — Anne Rice

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality. — Anne Rice

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! — Anne Rice

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

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. — Anne Rice

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

Let the flesh instruct the mind. — Anne Rice

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

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

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really. — Anne Rice

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

I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will. — Anne Rice

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? — Anne Rice

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. — Anne Rice

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone! — Anne Rice

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up. — Anne Rice

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. — Anne Rice

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success. — Anne Rice

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear. — Anne Rice

Life Lessons by Anne Rice

1. Anne Rice teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. She overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the most successful authors in the world.
2. She also reminds us to stay true to ourselves and to never be afraid to express our creativity. She has always been unapologetically herself, and her work reflects that.
3. Finally, Anne Rice encourages us to take risks and to never be afraid to try something new. She has always pushed the boundaries of her writing, and her success has been a testament to that.