Quotes from Anne Rice

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.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

Malady of mortality

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.