Brian Lumley

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. ”

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! ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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