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