Anne Rice Quotes

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  None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

  Anne Rice

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

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Fear

• We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don’t know.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Truth

• I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

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  Topics in God

• Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

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  Topics in Death, Wisdom

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• Every moment must be first known and then savored.

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  Topics in Life

• Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Religion

• And books, they offer one hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

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• What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

  Anne Rice

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• 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

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• I was good and bad, but never wicked.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Inspirational

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

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Power, Success

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• The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Life
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  The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Beauty

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• And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire’s arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

  Anne Rice

  Topics in Beauty

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• 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

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• I’m always looking, and I’m always asking questions.

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

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• Obviously, a writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible.

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• 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.

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Anne Rice (68)

Birth:	4th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans. She 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: The Vampire Chronicles in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.  She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. In addition to her vampire novels, Rice has authored books such as The Feast of All Saints and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries.

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