1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

You are someone worth loving

As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires were—these elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.

We're frightened of what makes us different.