1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

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.

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.

Can you picture it, this splendid domesticity, dim lamps, the vampire father singing to the vampire daughter? Only the doll had a human face, only the doll.

You play with your toys and your money and all your fine things, and you forget. You forget and that’s why you’re happy.

God triumphs on the ruins of our plans’. And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which, we’ve never dreamed. Let’s trust that that is what is happening here for each of us”.

But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history – is lies.

One time Gifford had asked Mona: “What’s the difference between men and women?” Mona had said: “Men don’t know what can happen. They’re happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.

And then the blood erupted, roared. Don’t rush this! I was the victim suddenly laid waste as if by a phallic god, slammed by the rushing blood against the floor of the universe, the heart pounding, emptying the frail form it sought to protect. And lo, she was dead. Oh, too soon. Crushed lily on the pillow, except she’d been no lily and I’d seen her grimy petty purple crimes as that blood made a fool of me, wasted me, left me warm, indeed hot, all over, licking my lips.

In fact, she had the neuter-gender quality of an angel.