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

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

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

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

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

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

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