Top 500 Anne Rice Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Anne Rice

352. “So you’re saying that demons aren’t as smart as angels.” “Perhaps they could be,” he said, “but their state of mind interferes with their intelligence. It interferes with their observations, and their conclusions. It interferes with everything that they do. Theirs is a hideous predicament. They refuse to admit that they have lost.” That was beautiful. I liked it. I liked the puzzle of it and the truth of it.”

— Anne Rice

353. “In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.”

— Anne Rice

354. “It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.”

— Anne Rice

355. “It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat’s black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.”

— Anne Rice

356. “True evil in this world is done by those with no imagination.”

— Anne Rice

357. “Was it fair to say I didn’t know the full state of my soul?”

— Anne Rice

358. “Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it – when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth – he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.”

— Anne Rice

359. “I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.”

— Anne Rice

360. “I dream the dreams of the young,’ he said. ‘And they are always dreams of being older, and richer, and wiser, and stronger, don’t you think?”

— Anne Rice

361. “I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.”

— Anne Rice

362. “It will be under the name David Talbot.” “My clothes. There’s a stash of them here under the name Isaac Rummel. Just a suitcase or two, and some coats. It’s really winter, isn’t it?” I gave him the key to the room. This was humiliating. Rather like making a servant of him. Perhaps he’d change his mind and put our new lodgings under the name of Renfield.”

— Anne Rice

363. “I don’t understand,” said Fareed, “a world in which the most outspoken and high-profile blood drinkers are all romantics, poets, who bring into the Blood only those whom they love for emotional reasons. Oh, I do so appreciate your writing, you understand, every word of it. Your books are scripture for the Undead. Seth gave them to me at once, told me to learn them. But have you never thought to bring over those whom you actually need?”

— Anne Rice

364. “How could I not love it, the mere idea of it? How could it not be worth the greatest danger, the greatest and most ghastly defeat? Even at the moment of destruction, I would be alive as I have never been.”

— Anne Rice

365. “The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.”

— Anne Rice

366. “Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.”

— Anne Rice

367. “Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.”

— Anne Rice

368. “When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it’s one of the greatest gifts we possess.”

— Anne Rice

369. “I read her thoughts and I found the poetry inside of her, beneath the misfortune of warts and pockmarked skin, of hunched shoulders and deformed limbs. I loved her. Indeed she became, whole and entire, quite beautiful to me –. And she came to love me with her whole heart.”

— Anne Rice

370. “Nothing vanishes quite like pain – when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does.”

— Anne Rice

371. “And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”

— Anne Rice

372. “Blood Genesis In the beginning were the spirits. They were invisible beings, heard and seen only by the most powerful sorcerers or witches.”

— Anne Rice

373. “She found herself staring at a tintype, a late-nineteenth-century photograph.”

— Anne Rice

374. “Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift.”

— Anne Rice

375. “Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.”

— Anne Rice

376. “The idea was simply that there was somebody who knew everything, somebody who had seen everything. I did not mean by this that a Supreme Being existed, but rather that there was on earth a continual intelligence, a continual awareness. And I thought of it in practical terms that excited me and soothed me simultaneously.”

— Anne Rice

377. “And pain was pain, whether physical or mental. Not the wisest of men or women or Taltos would ever know which was worse – the pain of the heart or the pain of the flesh.”

— Anne Rice

378. “Finally those you love are simply... those you love.”

— Anne Rice

379. “People write to me all the time to tell me that “homosexuality is an abomination.” They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.”

— Anne Rice

380. “The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Anne Rice

382. “I watched them with the eyes of a hungry ghost.”

— Anne Rice

383. “Finally I closed my eyes and opened them again, and I smiled very gently at the creature.”

— Anne Rice

384. “Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!”

— Anne Rice

385. “For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.”

— Anne Rice

386. “We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!”

— Anne Rice

387. “I understand the very definition of “hate” when I think of you.”

— Anne Rice

388. “It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.”

— Anne Rice

389. “An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.”

— Anne Rice

390. “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

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391. “I’m fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.”

— Anne Rice

392. “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

393. “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.”

— Anne Rice

394. “No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.”

— Anne Rice

395. “I wrestled as well with my passion for life, my lust for pleasure, for music, and beauty, and comfort and sensuality, and the inexplicable joys of art – and the baffling majesty of loving another so much that all the world, it seemed, depended on that love.”

— Anne Rice

396. “I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one’s fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.”

— Anne Rice

397. “And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist – why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.”

— Anne Rice

398. “I am your queen,” the woman answered.”

— Anne Rice

399. “I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.”

— Anne Rice

400. “I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don’t think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.”

— Anne Rice