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18 quotes by Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley Born (1937-12-02) 2 December 1937 (age 77) County Durham, England Occupation novelist, Writer Period 1971–present Genre Horror, Sci-Fi Website www.brianlumley.com Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror-fiction writer. Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a...
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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!

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The Army was my bread and butter.

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

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

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I have friends who read my books in Greek.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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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... →

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