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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 10

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I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.Oh, inocent love, she said

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

Love, Hands, Together

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Writing, Literature, Enough

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

Song, Pain, Garden

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Art, Shock, Madmen

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

Life, Breathing, Sun

Anne Rice (2014). “Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles”, p.338, Anchor

Perhaps this is the only real evil left.

Real, Evil, Vampire Movie

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Fear, Choices

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

Jobs, Book, Hero

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Strong, Truth Is, Weak

Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.

Thinking, Bird, Heartless

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

Mean, Doe, World

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.133, Ballantine Books

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.

Loneliness, Kissing, Sea

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.83, Ballantine Books

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.

Sexy, Lunch, Sandwiches

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Country, Doubt, European Countries

"A Fan's Interview with Anne Rice". Penguin Random House Inerview, www.randomhouse.com.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

Ghouls, Vampire, Devil

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Temptation, Soul, Chance

Anne Rice (2003). “Blood Canticle”, Knopf Canada

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Years, Work Out, Hours

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.

Kings, Hands, People

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

Pain, Literature, Pleasure

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

Christian, Hate, Thinking

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

Hands, Literature, Mythology

Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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.

Moving, Character, Inspire

I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?

Eye, Fighting, Feet

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.4711, Ballantine Books

It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

Nature, Blessed, Night

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.257, Ballantine Books

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

New York, Looks, Literature

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