Brian Lumley Quotes
"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Experience, Words, Worth)
"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: God, Father, People, Army, Being, Talk, Years)
"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
- Brian Lumley
"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Work, Now, Years)
"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Army, Now, Writing)
"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Now, Voice)
"The Army was my bread and butter."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Army)
"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Life)
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Literary, Writer)
"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Day, Machine)
"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Evil, Romantic)
"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Movies, Death, Kiss, Talk)
"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Time, American, Class, Fiction, Writer)
"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Writers)
"I have friends who read my books in Greek."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Books, Friends)
"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Time)
"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
- Brian Lumley
(Related: Ideas, Writing)