Quotes by 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)

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)

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 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)

But theres 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 guys lashing away. (Brian Lumley)

He commented that maybe I could write a mythos tale for a book he would soon edit, called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Of course I got to work on it right away. Hey, I mean, this should happen to every aspiring writer. (Brian Lumley)

He went on about monsters, sleeping in great caverns underground and especially under the sea, waiting for a chance to take over the surface world. (Brian Lumley)

I have friends who read my books in Greek. (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)

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)