Brian Lumley

The Army was my bread and butter.

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

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

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?