top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fortune quotes
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
Explore more quotes by Brian Lumley
"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."
"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."
"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."
"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
bottom of page