Quotes from Anne Rice

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.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

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

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?

I love the one who punishes me well.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

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

Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.