Quote

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.

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
Year
Lestat
Getting
Ghouls
Difficult
Vampire
Write
Terms
Done
Took
Writing
Novel
Years
Literature
Term

More quotes by Anne Rice

Image
Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.
Anne Rice
Image
Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
Anne Rice
Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
Image
Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
Anne Rice
Image
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
Anne Rice
Image
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
Anne Rice
Image
I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
Anne Rice
Image
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.
Anne Rice
Image
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
Anne Rice
Image
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.
Anne Rice
Image
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
Anne Rice
Image
The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.
Anne Rice
Image
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
Anne Rice
Image
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
Anne Rice
Image
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
Anne Rice
Image
In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
Anne Rice
Image
We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
Anne Rice
Image
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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
This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves.
Anne Rice