Brian Lumley Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Romantic, Evil, Crazy

• 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

  Topics in Father, God

  Tags in Great

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Down

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Young

• I have friends who read my books in Greek.

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Friends

• 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

  Topics in Experience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas

• 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

  Topics in Movies

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Brain

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

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Army

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

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Entertainment, Writers

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

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sign

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Literary

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing

• The Army was my bread and butter.

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Army

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things

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

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Life

Brian Lumley (18)

Birth:	2nd December, 1937
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Brian Lumley was born in County Durham, England. He is an English horror-fiction writer. Later works included the Necroscope series of novels, which produced spin-off series such as the Vampire World Trilogy, The Lost Years parts 1 and 2, and the E-Branch trilogy. The central protagonist of the earlier Necroscope novels appears in the anthology Harry Keogh and Other Weird Heroes. The latest entry in the Necroscope saga is The Mobius Murders. Lumley served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1996 to 1997. On 28 March 2010 Lumley was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association. He also received a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

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