Top 18 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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 those things while there still is time.

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.

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

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

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

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

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.