"I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But the...
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"Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that...
"I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do...
"On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that...
"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
"The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Original...
"What lurked beneath my fancy frills, behind my quiet unquestioning eyes? Who was I? Had I no remembrance of a warmer flame than that which gave its wi...
"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answe...
"as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words dr...
"Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?...
"Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
"No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a ...
"Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
"And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there is not one single aspect of life, past, present, o...