#chroniclequeen

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"ARMAND LIVES" T-shirts.

I think trying to kill Armand was one of the worst decisions I've ever made. (...) "Armand Lives", it's true.- Anne Rice

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I had an idea of Lestat as the man of action, the man that could do things that I never could, the man who could make decisions that I’d never had the nerve to make, and the person who could go through life joyfully in spite of the questions that torment me, the doubts that torment me, the horror of death that torments me. (...) [Lestat] never really absorbs a tragic definition of himself for very long. He always comes back laughing at everything and just rebounding. It may take him a few years, but he always does it. I really wanted to explore a personality different from my own. - Anne Rice (source)

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She doesn't need him, and he's aware of it every minute - Anne Rice

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Anne Rice on Claudia and Akasha

There is a way in which all this writing is always deeply psychological. It was a considerable length of time after The Queen of the Damned was written that I realized what it was about psychologically. I still don’t feel entirely comfortable talking about it, but it has something to do with my mother and my daughter again. My mother died when I was fifteen right at the time I left New Orleans and my daughter died later, when she was almost six years old. - Anne Rice

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On the word 'Preternatural'

'Preternatural' was a word in a religion textbook that I had in the junior year in Catholic high school. It was a very wonderful textbook. And 'preternatural' was the word that the textbook used for the gifts that Adam and Eve had before the fall. (...) And I thought [the word] was perfect, because Lestat and Louis and Armand, my vampires, they're really not, you know, they don't shapeshift, and they don't turn into smoke, and they don't turn into bats. I mean, they are really biological creatures that share the biological universe with us, but they have preternatural gifts. - Anne Rice

I recommend checking out the preternatural word count per book by @sizeofyoursoul

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Anne Rice on how she viewed Lestat while writing Interview with the Vampire

I thought [Lestat] was the villain, I thought he was an antagonist (...). I was so focused on the story of Louis, the melancholy and brokenhearted vampire who was telling the story, that the bad guy that was always disappointing him really wasn’t my focus.  But I had a consciousness somewhere that Louis was being very unfair to Lestat. That the story was about a character who was deeply unhappy and incapable of acting. I guess what we call today passive-aggressive and that he was very wrong about Lestat. And there is a point in the book where Louis himself admits that: “I have hated him for all the wrong reasons”. And he has a moment, I think, of really missing him. - Anne Rice

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I want the movie that conveys [Lestat’s] personality, and who he is, and his life; and puts him, you know, in the correct details of where he came from and who made him and how he grew up; and puts him in relationships, loving relationships with Louis, Claudia, Nicolas, Armand... the people around him, Marius. I want a movie that's true to all that material but really it's true to him, you know, the story details can be changed, plot details can be changed, but there are certain things in the material that I think readers care very much about. - Anne Rice

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Anne Rice on Gabrielle

Gabrielle is a highly intelligent person, she's detached. She was a very cold but extremely loving mother for Lestat in her own way. But she is cold, she doesn't need anybody. And Lestat's had to wrestle with that his whole life. She doesn't need him, and he's aware of it every minute. - Anne Rice (x)