Anne Rice Quotes

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

I still sleep with my baby blanket.

I feel like Boston is a second home for me.

There's always something about home that's special.

There's always that one person that you always go back to.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.