Brian Lumley Quotes

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

Someone, Wonderful, Write

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

Looking, Spend, Writers

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

Death, Movies, Talk

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

Romantic, Crazy, Evil

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

Brain, Away, Guy

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

Real, Down, Knowing

I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Brian Lumley

Friends, Read, Books

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

Time, Young, American

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

Writing, Give, Ideas

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

Experience, Words, Off

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

Great, God, Father

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
Brian Lumley

Work, After, Sign

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
Brian Lumley

Writing, Army, Hobby

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

Amazing, Lost, Find

The Army was my bread and butter.
Brian Lumley

Army, Bread, Butter

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

Time, Done, Find

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Brian Lumley

Life, Short, Older

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
Brian Lumley

Business, Pleasure, Writers

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 2, 1937

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