Anne Rice
Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.Collection: Diversity
Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Daughter
In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.Collection: Christian
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.Collection: Revenge
I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.Collection: Glasses
And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.Collection: Sound
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?Collection: Disappointment
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.Collection: Night
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-Collection: Book
Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.Collection: Girl
Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.Collection: Beautiful
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.Collection: Age
... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.Collection: Writing
In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.Collection: Saint
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.Collection: Temptation
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.Collection: Dream
My body is no schoolboy.Collection: Body
My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.Collection: Water
Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.Collection: Men
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.Collection: Fifty
Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.Collection: Believe
Evil is just a point of view.Collection: Evil
Don’t let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that’s happened.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Reading
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can’t live without her.Collection: Firsts
I’m definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there’s no doubt about that.Collection: Country