Quote

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

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
Working
Realm
Moving
Realms
Stories
Inspire
Character
Characters
May
Created
Conscious
Usually
Though
Mythology

More quotes by Anne Rice

Image
I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.
Anne Rice
Image
You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.
Anne Rice
Image
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
Anne Rice
Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
Anne Rice
Image
I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.
Anne Rice
Image
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any natural explanation offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.
Anne Rice
Image
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.
Anne Rice
Image
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
Anne Rice
Image
The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
Anne Rice
Image
One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
Anne Rice
Image
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
Anne Rice
Image
I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
Anne Rice
Image
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
Anne Rice
Image
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
Anne Rice
Image
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.
Anne Rice
Image
I assume I don't need an introduction.
Anne Rice
Image
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
Image
An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
Anne Rice
Image
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
Anne Rice
Image
I would have done just about anything for him.
Anne Rice