Quote

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Anne Rice

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Rice
Age: 82
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
Right
Dickens
Time
Admired
Think
Spoken
Thinking
Writer
Moment
Everyone
Moments
Enough
Underrated

More quotes by Anne Rice

Image
Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
Anne Rice
Image
[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.
Anne Rice
Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
Image
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.
Anne Rice
Image
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
Anne Rice
Image
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Anne Rice
Image
Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
Anne Rice
Image
If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.
Anne Rice
Image
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
Anne Rice
Image
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
Anne Rice
Image
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne Rice
Image
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
Anne Rice
Image
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
Anne Rice
Image
Because, she said, that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.
Anne Rice
Image
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
Anne Rice
Image
One tiny flame could make so many other flames one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
Anne Rice
Image
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
Anne Rice
Image
We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!
Anne Rice
Image
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Anne Rice
Image
Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.
Anne Rice