"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!"

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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!"

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"The Army was my bread and butter."

Army

"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."

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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."

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"I have friends who read my books in Greek."

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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