Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby. "

" 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! "

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

" The Army was my bread and butter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "