Top 29 Brian Lumley Quotes
#2. The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.
Dirk Nowitzki
#3. 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.
Brian Lumley
#4. I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
#5. 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
#6. Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
Brian Lumley
#7. Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
Brian Lumley
#8. The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black, the writer's jacket is also black.
Roberto Bolano
#9. 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.
Brian Lumley
#10. German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
Brian Lumley
#11. My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.
Bubba Watson
#12. 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
#13. Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
Brian Lumley
#14. Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.
Bob Brown
#15. 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.
Brian Lumley
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. True sorrow like true happiness comes from love.
R.K. Ryals
#21. We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Brian Lumley
#22. I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
Brian Lumley
#23. I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.
Steven Gerrard
#24. A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.
Philip K. Dick
#26. I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Brian Lumley
#27. 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.
Brian Lumley
#28. They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.
Sergio Martinez
#29. He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
William Faulkner
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