Anne Rice Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

  "Anne Rice", www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2008.

• Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Pleasure

  "Anne Rice confirms that the vampires Louis and Lestat are a same-sex couple with a child". Interview with Kaila Hale-Stern, io9.com. October 17, 2012.

• 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

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

• When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Writing, Darkness

• Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

  Anne Rice

  Song, Pain, Garden

• And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. It must be known. And this I would wish on no one in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Grief, Fate

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.106, Ballantine Books

• 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

  Pain, Book, Character

• Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Dark, Sea

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

• Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Love You, Shows

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3216, Ballantine Books

• I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

  Anne Rice

  Song, Pain, Painful

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.26, Ballantine Books

• And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Two, Moments

• The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Literature, Pleasure

• 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

  Pain, Suffering, Overcoming

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

• What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Revenge, Recognition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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