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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

#experience #had #i #i can #killed

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ike #kennedy #other #round #son

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

#awful #being #could #dead #enough

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

— Brian Lumley

#now #sign #work #years

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

— Brian Lumley

#hobby #i #now #writing

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

#amazing thing #critics #find #lost #me

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

#eventually #find #haven #i #lots

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

— Brian Lumley

#get #got #how #life #more

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#bed #desk #giraffe #got #hooked