Brian Lumley
Brian Lumley
Brian Lumleyis an English horror-fiction writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 February 1937
voice lost critics
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.
writing wonderful critics
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!
crazy romantic-love evil
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.
hurt thinking forever
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
father army years
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.
book greek
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
lifetime certain findings
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.
real knowing thrill
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.
army bread bread-and-butter
The Army was my bread and butter.
done stills havens
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.
realizing
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
kissing too-much found
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
writing army hobbies
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
aspiring book commented course happen maybe soon tale tales work
He commented that maybe I could write a mythos tale for a book he would soon edit, called Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Of course I got to work on it right away. Hey, I mean, this should happen to every aspiring writer!