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The Army was my bread and butter.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Army
Bread
Bread And Butter
Butter
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I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Book
Greek
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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Army
Hobbies
Writing
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Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Sign
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We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Life
Realizing
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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Entertainment
Entertainment Business
Giving
Host
Pleasure
Lots
Business Me Entertainment
Entertain
Writers
Readers
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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 / Fiction Writer
Air
Give Me
Ideas
Thrill
Writing
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But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Found
Kissing
Too Much
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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!
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Critics
Wonderful
Writing
Critic
Literary
Loves
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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.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Critics
Lost
Voice
Amazing Thing
So-Called
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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 / Fiction Writer
Crow
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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 / Fiction Writer
Done
Havens
Stills
Lots
Eventually
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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.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Bedtime
Certain
Fortunate
Lifetime
Plenty
Consider
Writers
Finding
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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.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Romantic
Crazy
Evil
Vampire
Anyway
Monster
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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 / Fiction Writer
Class
Weird
Writer
Influenced
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But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Whip
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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 / Fiction Writer
Brits
Knowing
Occasional
Real
Spine
Thrill
Anyway
German
Readers
Shudder
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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.
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Army
Father
Years
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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 / Fiction Writer
Army
Awful Lot
Harry
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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
Brian Lumley / Fiction Writer
Forever
Hurt
Thinking
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