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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
“It was not only the absence of light but the absence of everything. He might be at the core of a black hole, except a black hole has enormous gravity and this place had none. In one sense it was a metaphysical plane of existence, but in another it was not – because nothing existed here. It was simply a… — Brian Lumley Copy Share
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… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
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… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
