Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Anne Rice

253. “I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I’d ever wanted to do.”

— Anne Rice

254. “You’re the hunter, the warrior. You’re stronger than anyone else here, that’s your tragedy.”

— Anne Rice

255. “The stars shone as brightly as if they were tumbling on the Final Day.”

— Anne Rice

256. “I do want to go another way – to write something completely different.”

— Anne Rice

257. “Don’t make a religion of reason and logic. Because in the passage of time reason may fail you and when it does, you may find yourself taking refuge in madness.”

— Anne Rice

258. “Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.”

— Anne Rice

259. “And so a ghost of him had been created by her hatred and her rage. It was fading, yet it still stalked her, even here in the safe hallways of her own domain.”

— Anne Rice

260. “It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.”

— Anne Rice

261. “When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can’t say it enough.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

263. “How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”

— Anne Rice

264. “The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it?”

— Anne Rice

265. “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

266. “I find at moments I’m as fragile as glass.”

— Anne Rice

267. “We truly are all one tribe,” said the iron-haired ghost softly. “Human, vampire, spirit, ghost – we’re all sentient creatures bound to this planet. Why can’t we work together in the face of something like this?”

— Anne Rice

268. “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

269. “Music like that could hurt you. It gave you back your disappointment, and your emptiness. It said, Life can be this. Remember this.”

— Anne Rice

270. “If goodness does exist, then I’m the opposite of it. I’m evil, and I revel in it.”

— Anne Rice

271. “The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can’t live without her.”

— Anne Rice

272. “I love; therefore I am.”

— Anne Rice

273. “Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.”

— Anne Rice

274. “I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.”

— Anne Rice

275. “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

276. “I don’t know whether I’m the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn’t I dominate it? I’m the one really telling it, after all.”

— Anne Rice

277. “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

278. “In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.”

— Anne Rice

279. “Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.”

— Anne Rice

280. “You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night killing alley cats and rats and staring for hours at candles as if they were people and standing in the rain like a zombie until your clothes are drenched and you smell like old wardrobe trunks in attics and have the look of a baffled idiot at the zoo.”

— Anne Rice

281. “Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us.”

— Anne Rice

282. “In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard’s canvases – beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.”

— Anne Rice

283. “The blood ran in tiny rivulets down his white face, as if from Christ’s Crown of Thorns, his long blond hair flying out as he turned full circle, his hand ripping at his shirt, tearing it open down his chest, the black tie loose and falling. His pale crystalline blue eyes were glazed and shot with blood as he screamed the unimportant lyrics.”

— Anne Rice

284. “Here’s my love, not in little droplets, but from the very river of my being. It reaches all the way down to the roots of my being, tangling my heart in its burning mesh. For you. Drink deep.”

— Anne Rice

285. “It’s the risk that fascinates, the moment of infinite possibility.”

— Anne Rice

286. “Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.”

— Anne Rice

287. “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

288. “I closed my eyes and heard the wind and the sound of water flowing softly, swiftly in the river. It was enough, for one moment. And I knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and I would fly after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under God, to get it back.”

— Anne Rice

289. “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

290. “And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.”

— Anne Rice

291. “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

292. “Maybe we do go home, finally.”

— Anne Rice

293. “This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don’t you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?”

— Anne Rice

294. “I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

295. “But what endures is what has always mattered: love – that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good – that hope will be realized through love.”

— Anne Rice

296. “Let me try to tell my stories,′ Marius said. ‘Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.”

— Anne Rice

297. “One doesn’t simply glut oneself on blood.”

— Anne Rice

298. “And there is another kind of strength in you. A daring, and a hunger, and aloneness. And that hunger and aloneness I know, and I kiss with the lips I do not have; I hold with the arms I do not have; I press to the heart in me that isn’t there to beat with warmth.”

— Anne Rice

299. “He wanted to say this was not erotic. But it was erotic, insofar as anything and everything is.”

— Anne Rice

300. “I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.”

— Anne Rice