Meredith > Meredith's Quotes

“Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you have been trying to find but have not found. But write. And remember, there are no rules for our profession. Ignore rules. Ignore what I say here if it doesn't help you. Do it your own way. Every writer knows fear and discouragement. Just write.The world is crying for new writing. It is crying for fresh and original voices and new characters and new stories. If you won't write the classics of tomorrow, well, we will not have any.”
― Anne Rice

“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
― Anne Rice

“Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil

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

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

“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, Servant of the Bones

“Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”
― Anne Rice

“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

“How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”
― Anne Rice

“I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!”
― Anne Rice

“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”
― Anne Rice

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

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

“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

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”
― Anne Rice

“The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.”
― Anne Rice

“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”
― Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil

“It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living”
― Anne Rice

“Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.”
― Anne Rice

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“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, Interview with the Vampire

“You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.”
― Anne Rice, Pandora

“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.”
― Anne Rice

“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.”
― Anne Rice, Taltos

“I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God, or the God of the Hindus. What mattered was something deeper and older and more powerful than any such image - it was a concept of goodness based upon the affirmation of life, the turning away from destruction, from the perverse, from man using and abusing man. It was the affirmation of the human and the natural.”
― Anne Rice

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
― Anne Rice

“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire