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Brian Lumley, a British fiction writer, was born on December 2, 1937. He is renowned for his horror novels, particularly for his interpretations of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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All Army Ifs Writing Critics Give Me Giving Havens Knows Reader Stills

Famous Brian Lumley Quotes

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

Ifs Happens Found Too Much Kissing Kiss Of Death

Author:Brian Lumley

“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.”

Wells I Can Stories Evil Crazy Havens Romantic Madness Monsters Vampire Romantic Love

Author:Brian Lumley

“But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever”

Thinking Stills Ends Felt Hurt Gone Forever Missing Painful Fallen Acceptable Organs It Hurts Torn Parting

Book:The Ghost Quartet

Source: The Ghost Quartet

“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 didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.”

People Ifs Knows Years Enough Father Speak Army Awful Great Men

Author:Brian Lumley

“I have friends who read my books in Greek.”

Book Greek

Author:Brian Lumley

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

Writing Army Hobbies

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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!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Shows Wonderful Critics

Author: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.”

Certain Findings Lifetime Plenty Fortunate Bedtime

Author:Brian Lumley

“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.”

Real Cases Knowing Reader Shoulders Thrill Occasional Spine Brits

Author:Brian Lumley

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

Knows Giving Writing Ideas Air Give Me Thrill

Author:Brian Lumley

“The Army was my bread and butter.”

Army Bread Bread And Butter

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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.”

Seems Lost Voice My Own Critics Amazing Things

Author:Brian Lumley

“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.”

Stills Done Havens

Author:Brian Lumley

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

Life Realizing

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

Giving Pleasure Reader Give Me Entertainment Host Entertainment Business

Author:Brian Lumley

About the Author

Born: December 2, 1937
Known for: Fiction writer
Quotes: 15

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