Brian Lumley

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like…

— Brian Lumley

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As…

— Brian Lumley

“It was not only the absence of light but the absence of everything. He might be at the core of a black…

— 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…

— 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…

— Brian Lumley

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

— 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…

— Brian Lumley

“The future is a devious thing.”

— Brian Lumley

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that…

— Brian Lumley

The Army was my bread and butter.

— 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…

— 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

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

— Brian Lumley

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

— Brian Lumley

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

— Brian Lumley

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing…

— Brian Lumley

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

— 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…

— Brian Lumley

But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt…

— 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…

— Brian Lumley

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

— Brian Lumley

“Blood is the life.”

— Brian Lumley