Top 70 Christopher Rice Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”

— Christopher Rice

2. “I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it’s for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it’s not for someone else to decide for us.”

— Christopher Rice

3. “I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.”

— Christopher Rice

4. “I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.”

— Christopher Rice

5. “Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.”

— Christopher Rice

6. “Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, – it’s ironic – but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven’t become too self-conscious of the goal.”

— Christopher Rice

7. “Whoever said you can’t go home again was just engaging in a bunch of wishful thinking.”

— Christopher Rice

8. “Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.”

— Christopher Rice

9. “He had a nice house in the Norma Triangle section of West Hollywood and an ass that could stop a war.”

— Christopher Rice

10. “What’s become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I’m not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it’s a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.”

— Christopher Rice

11. “Why do these people like pain so much?”

— Christopher Rice

12. “If you’re doing something, if you’re following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you’ve got to slow down and ask yourself why you’re following that dream.”

— Christopher Rice

13. “The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world. Although.”

— Christopher Rice

14. “I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person’s role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.”

— Christopher Rice

15. “I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that’s above everything else. I think that applies whether you’re a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who’s in it.”

— Christopher Rice

16. “Anger can give you a false sense of direction when sadness makes you feel lost.”

— Christopher Rice

17. “How eating became a source of constant fear and worry. There’s a shot of her standing outside the window of a New York deli, staring at the sandwiches inside like an orphan watching a happy family enjoy Christmas dinner.”

— Christopher Rice

18. “You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of both and occasionally good things pop up in the middle of tragedy, but they still don’t make tragedy go away. They can’t protect you. They’re just light. But what you didn’t say is that sometimes, certain people can be a light in the darkness. There are some people in this world who are worth saving when other people decide they shine the wrong kind of light on the wrong.”

— Christopher Rice

19. “The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it’s an accepting place. It’s accepting of eccentricity, it’s accepting of excess, it’s accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.”

— Christopher Rice

20. “I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn’t necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don’t want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that’s a challenge.”

— Christopher Rice

21. “Know this. It is not the living who are haunted by the dead – it is the dead who are haunted by the living.”

— Christopher Rice

22. “But in general, who’s to say what’s not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, “Is it too gay?”

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23. “My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.”

— Christopher Rice

24. “A sense of peace comes over her. She realizes, for the first time in her life, that deciding to be strong doesn’t mean you get to decide what you’ll endure and when.”

— Christopher Rice

25. “I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they’re set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.”

— Christopher Rice

26. “So busy looking for ghosts in the attic, we never think to look in the ground.”

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27. “The bar looks like the dirt beside the irrigation canal burped up an old trailer it couldn’t swallow.”

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28. “Copper Pot, which stinks because I hear they have good pie.”

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29. “Why is he the only one who can see this – that our faces are masks, rendering our personalities, our behaviors, our true accomplishments, utterly irrelevant, and yet we seem to have utter, idiotic faith in them as indicators of what’s in the soul?”

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30. “I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don’t mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.”

— Christopher Rice

31. “Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.”

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32. “I wondered if I was more addicted to being sad than I was to bourbon or cocaine.”

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33. “I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.”

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34. “When we get back, maybe we can all sit down and have a meal together, and you two can bury the hatchet or something. Or, you know, do what men do when they’ve been bumping chests so much their backs are starting to get sore. Like yoga.”

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35. “I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.”

— Christopher Rice

36. “Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.”

— Christopher Rice

37. “But men like this one, men who will run you off the road because they have cast you in their paranoid fantasies, are far more common. And the tyranny of their appetites is so woven through every woman’s world that imagining life without it is the same as imagining life without ground underfoot.”

— Christopher Rice

38. “I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.”

— Christopher Rice

39. “Dream big or die in your sleep.”

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40. “And you know instantly what it means. You know you’re being punished by God, by your parents, by everyone you have ever met, everyone who ever knew your secret. Because all you wanted was to feel less alone. All you wanted was to have them smile at who you actually were.”

— Christopher Rice

41. “She did not feel she could be a writer because she lacked the courage to let anyone read her words. When.”

— Christopher Rice

42. “So far the process has unfolded without a hitch, in meetings much like this one, while Cole stares out the sea-facing glass wall, wondering what’s become of his ambitions and his father’s legacy, a legacy that includes inventing a drug that revolutionized the treatment of HIV throughout the world.”

— Christopher Rice

43. “You can admit that what happened to you made you stronger without celebrating the people who did those things to you.”

— Christopher Rice

44. “Any spot where the earth kisses the clouds is a special place, a place where primal truths reveal themselves to those who’ve acquired the wisdom of solitude.”

— Christopher Rice

45. “Both study her, their jaws working, as if the five words she just spoke have awakened a predatory energy inside them.”

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46. “Because they expect to be relieved of every ache and pain and bad mood, as if being alive itself is a pathological condition, and someone, somewhere is responsible for fixing it.”

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47. “This is what it means to have real family, she’d realized as they lowered the casket into the ground. This is part of loving and being loved, and without it, you cannot have the other parts, the joyful parts.”

— Christopher Rice

48. “I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.”

— Christopher Rice

49. “It never occurred to me to write anything that didn’t include gay characters in it.”

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50. “Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.”

— Christopher Rice