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Anne Rice is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature.

She is perhaps best known for her series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.

Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life there before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco. She was raised in an observant Catholic family, but became an agnostic as a young adult. She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s. In the mid-2000s, following a publicized return to Catholicism, Rice published the novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, fictionalized accounts of certain incidents in the life of Jesus. Several years later she distanced herself from organized Christianity, citing disagreement with the Church's stances on social issues but pledging that faith in God remained "central to [her] life." However, she now considers herself a secular humanist.Rice's books have sold nearly 100 million copies, placing her among the most popular authors in recent American history. While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she became more popular with critics and readers in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been analyzed by literary commentators. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60. She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author.

In addition to her vampire novels, Rice has authored books such as The Feast of All Saints and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers. Rice has also authored erotic fiction under the pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a 1994 film.



Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1941  •  Other names Anne Rampling
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Works

Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice: 160 quotes16 likes

Famous Anne Rice Quotes

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Armand

Source: The Vampire Armand

“I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

Anne Rice book Pandora

Pandora (1998)

“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 book Servant of the Bones

Source: Servant of the Bones

Anne Rice Quotes about love

“as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.”

Anne Rice

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

Anne Rice

“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”

Anne Rice

“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”

Anne Rice

“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius”

Anne Rice

Anne Rice Quotes about the world

“But reason was only a created thing, imposed with faith upon the world, and the stars promise nothing to no one.”

Anne Rice book Pandora

Pandora (1998)

“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”

Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief

Source: The Tale of the Body Thief

“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 The Tale of the Body Thief

Source: The Tale of the Body Thief

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

Anne Rice book Pandora

Source: Pandora

Anne Rice: Trending quotes

“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.”

Anne Rice The Wolf Gift

Source: The Wolf Gift

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice Quotes

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

Anne Rice The Witching Hour

Source: The Witching Hour (1990)

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

Anne Rice

“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Tell me how bad I am… it makes me feel so good.”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Last line
Source: The Queen of the Damned (1988)

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world… on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Interview With The Vampire (1976)
Source: Interview with the Vampire

“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 book Blackwood Farm

Source: Blackwood Farm (2002)
Context: "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "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.

“Take me from this earth
an endless night-
this, the end of life.
From the dark I feel your lips
and taste your bloody kiss.”

Anne Rice

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.”

Anne Rice book Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“Just remember… life without me would be even more unbearable.”

Anne Rice

“And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually… it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life… every second of it… Is all we have.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

Anne Rice

“We're frightened of what makes us different.”

Anne Rice

“And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“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.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”

Anne Rice book Pandora

Source: Pandora

“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

Anne Rice

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“I was good and bad, but never wicked.”

Anne Rice

“How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”

Anne Rice

“Every moment must be first known and then savored.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Drink from me and live forever.
Lestat de Lioncourt”

Anne Rice

“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat (1985)

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

Anne Rice

“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

“I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

Anne Rice

Source: Blood And Gold

“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”

Anne Rice

Source: Blood And Gold

“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”

Anne Rice

“Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”

Anne Rice

Source: Vittorio, The Vampire

“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”

Anne Rice

“There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

Anne Rice book Merrick

Source: Merrick

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