Quotes from Anne Rice

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

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

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

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

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

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.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.