Brian Lumley Quotes

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

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.

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!

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

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

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.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my 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.

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.

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.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.