Brian Lumley quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

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

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

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Brian Lumley

Books

Friends

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

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.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

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

Evil

Romantic

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

Day

Machine

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

Literary

Writer

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

Brian Lumley

Life

The Army was my bread and butter.

Brian Lumley

Army

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

Now

Voice

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

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

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.