Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die. Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice Fear is only good when you have a choice in things. Anne Rice choicesfear We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature? Anne Rice breathingsunlife The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins. Anne Rice outsidersvampireperfect It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. Anne Rice hatechristianthinking As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research. Anne Rice daughterbeautifulchildren And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. Anne Rice strongsweetmen To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time. Anne Rice wasting-timewastetwo ... what I fear in writing is the safe decision. Anne Rice decisionsafewriting Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. Anne Rice paris-fashionstreets-of-parisage Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. Anne Rice essencechristianstories Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Anne Rice superstitionspastworld I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. Anne Rice catholicleaderchristian When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is. Anne Rice paindarknesswriting The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them. Anne Rice honoredvengeancegods-will I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless. Anne Rice vampirehumanityworld The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. Anne Rice dignityyouthschool My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance. Anne Rice crazyselfthinking Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun Anne Rice risingsweetthinking I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality. Anne Rice herobloodthinking Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up. Anne Rice hellmadthinking
