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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 3

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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

Blue, Sky, Shade

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.481, Ballantine Books

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.

Writing, Ghouls, Years

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

Beautiful, Religious, World

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Pain, Pleasure

"Anne Rice confirms that the vampires Louis and Lestat are a same-sex couple with a child". Interview with Kaila Hale-Stern, io9.com. October 17, 2012.

I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.

Pain, Believe, Ideas

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Sin, Wonderful, Being Myself

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2249, Ballantine Books

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.

Daughter, Mother, Pain

"Anne Rice", www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2008.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Book, Curiosity, Madness

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

Falling In Love, Impact, Different

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

Cities, Knowing, Personality

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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.

Moving, Trying, Looks

Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.765, Ballantine Books

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Firsts, Moments, Known

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.496, Ballantine Books

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

Thinking, Satisfaction, Miserable

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1083, Ballantine Books

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

God, Faith, Christian

FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

Christian, Catholic, Outsiders

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

Jesus, Believe, Biblical

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

Teaching, People, Support

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Years, Middle, Behinds

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.38, Ballantine Books

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Wicked, Good And Bad

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Heart, Pride, Parent

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Evil, Perfect, Devil

Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Moving, Confusion, Feelings

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

Lying, Facts, I Loved You

In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

Names, Quitting, Christianity

"Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Sweet, Wings, Vampire

"Interview with the Vampire". Book by Anne Rice, May 5, 1976.

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