Quotes from Anne Rice

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

I broke with my religion in college.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

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

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.

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.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

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.

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

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

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.

Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

I broke with my religion in college.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

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

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

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

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.

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