33 Quotes by Brian Lumley

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

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!

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

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.

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.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

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

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.