One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead. Anne Rice mysteryhorrorsleep 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 mightbookfall It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. Anne Rice optimismsimplegiving 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 purposebearsworld To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. Anne Rice riskliteraturewriting Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies. Anne Rice purposebelievelying I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. Anne Rice writinginspirationallife Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Anne Rice selfishsoulheaven 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. Anne Rice daughterpainmother Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long. Anne Rice voiceprofoundlong The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. Anne Rice humdrumdespairsleep The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking. Anne Rice gunmorningschool Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. Anne Rice readingkingsbook Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened. Anne Rice repeatsarmsstories I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn. Anne Rice miserablesatisfactionthinking The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived. Anne Rice i-loved-youlyingfacts I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think Anne Rice strengthinspiringbelieve My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it. Anne Rice sunrisemorningthinking 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. Anne Rice christianfaithgod As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood. Anne Rice osirischristianmother
