Quote

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Anne Rice

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Asks
Whirlwind
Literature
Genocide
May
Door
Really
Answer
Doors
Question
Questioner
Answers
Lestat
Open
Annihilate

More quotes by Anne Rice

Image
Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
Anne Rice
Image
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.
Anne Rice
Image
There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
Anne Rice
Image
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.
Anne Rice
Image
A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
Anne Rice
Image
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
Anne Rice
Image
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
Anne Rice
Image
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.
Anne Rice
Image
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
Anne Rice
Image
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
Anne Rice
Image
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
Anne Rice
Image
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
Anne Rice
Image
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Anne Rice
Image
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
Anne Rice
Image
Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not only believe the world will end soon, but are looking forward to it. I MUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. IN JESUS' NAME.
Anne Rice
Image
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Anne Rice
Image
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
Anne Rice
Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is go where the pleasure is go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.
Anne Rice
Image
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
Anne Rice
Image
You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
Anne Rice