Anne Rice quotes - page 5

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. (Anne Rice)
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms' One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. View quote
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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands! View quote
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you. View quote
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Let the flesh instruct the mind. View quote
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For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none. View quote
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything. View quote
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His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet. View quote
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A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God. View quote
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. View quote
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So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end. (Anne Rice)
I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. View quote
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. View quote
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Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul? View quote
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The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others. View quote
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There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see. View quote
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Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow. View quote
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. View quote
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What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. (Anne Rice)
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. View quote
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Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. View quote
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It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. View quote
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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. View quote
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