#w

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

#brits #case #down #german #just

I have friends who read my books in Greek. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#friends #greek #i #read #who

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

#american #american writer #class #every #fiction

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

#fresh #give #give me #i #ideas

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