The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. Anne Rice More Quotes by Anne Rice More Quotes From Anne Rice The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. Anne Rice pandoraworst Evil is a point of view. Anne Rice point-of-viewviewsevil What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time. Anne Rice painbeautygiving Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. Anne Rice kinkyslavenaked When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. Anne Rice kinkynightthinking My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice flowerwhitehouse Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls. Anne Rice growthsoulsuffering There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin. Anne Rice nextwaitingworld This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God. Anne Rice painsufferingovercoming Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does. Anne Rice hellgovernmentdoe I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord. Anne Rice lordwriting This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural? Anne Rice disappointmentlyingchildren It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. Anne Rice chancesoultemptation I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes. Anne Rice writingcharacterthinking In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity. Anne Rice quittingchristianitynames Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. Anne Rice congratulationsrealsuccess Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was? Anne Rice coupleeuropeadventure Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you. Anne Rice painshowslove-you I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 Anne Rice vampiremissinggiving I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men. Anne Rice powerfulstarsmemorable
