Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice 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 characterinspiremoving Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me. Anne Rice eyenamesbeautiful The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. Anne Rice pleasurepainliterature We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. Anne Rice true-meaningshallowhero Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! Anne Rice pretendingvampireavant-garde Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good. Anne Rice vampiresmellorder I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. Anne Rice hourswork-outyears Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us. Anne Rice madmenshockart When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. Anne Rice literatureenoughwriting I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. Anne Rice european-countriesdoubtcountry 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." Anne Rice togetherlovehands When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. Anne Rice sexylunchsandwiches Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls? Anne Rice paingardensong What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world? Anne Rice doemeanworld 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. Anne Rice kissinglonelinesssea 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. Anne Rice herojobsbook 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? Anne Rice fightingeyefeet 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. Anne Rice heartlessbirdthinking The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. Anne Rice truth-isstrongweak It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct. Anne Rice hatecleverheart
