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Brian Lumley

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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as...
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Friend is a person who loves you as much as he could...
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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[Emerson] had a gift of the picturesque phrase, but too often it is empty of meaning. He is a nimble...
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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process th...
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love some...
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I am biased, but I thought we had several more who could have made it. I am glad for Brian. He had a...
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A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
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A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of t...
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I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to ...
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I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published an...
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Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book...
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I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so...
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I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at l...
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We've had our moments, but who doesn't. He has been so good to me. If there was anything I wanted an...
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time...
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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
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Not necessarily someone who is clever he was wise, but if someone is wise he definitely clever
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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ...
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He who writes to his beloved every day is not a lover, but a writer.
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...
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Abbas is someone who is in a difficult situation. But he is looking to dispel the accusation that he...
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Abbas is someone who is in a difficult situation. But he is looking to dispel the accusation that he...
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I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better ...
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Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing ...
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It's more than down and out. It's his choice. He loves being Slim. He could cash out, if he pushed i...
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
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Now we've got Steve Spurrier, who more than anything else loves a challenge. Opportunities to write ...
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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...
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When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head co...
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We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobo...
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met anot...
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He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would b...
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You can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.
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Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought whe...
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He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said ...
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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We wanted (Steward) to penetrate and see if he could score or get the ball to someone who could. It ...
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A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.
ABHIJIT NASKAR
A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.
UNKNOWN
It's like a doctor telling someone who loves to eat high cholesterol foods that he may get a heart a...
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I think a Fashionista is someone who loves style, loves design and loves life.
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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the...
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Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves
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God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
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He just loves playing football. We need more guys like that. He just loves playing football. He does...
ERIC YARBER
Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing./ He who can do nothing understands nothing./ He who understands...
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When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what h...
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My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write...
TWINKLE KHANNA
He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved
ARISTOTLE
He could have been a great weapon. We didn't give him the opportunity to show what he could do.
CRAIG FREDERICK
Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a tru...
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He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel...
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Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quali...
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JAXON REED
Brian probably thought he could win in a fight. There are kids who beat up bums on the weekend - the...
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George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, fo...
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I just wish he would have raped someone and been convicted. Then, he could probably still coach for ...
PATRICK CALLAHAN
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ERIC HOFFER
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can ...
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
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Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
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If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a gr...
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God loves all, yes? even the sinners. But then why would someone who loves you let you burn in a pit...
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George grimaced. “Jack is spoiled. Things are hard for him, but he isn’t the only one who doesn�...
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would ...
ADAM GARCIA
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves unde...
PAUL TOURNIER
It is just a wonderful feeling to be able to give something to someone you know would not have it an...
DENISE MARTIN
There is always someone who loves you and someone who hates you.
VIKRANT PARSAI
She recalled things that only someone who had been there that weekend would have known.
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He who is loyal to his wife lives own life like a true royal and intelligent, but she loves to rule ...
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HE WHO WRITES MORE THAN HE READS NEVER MAKES A GREAT WRITER.
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It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY
You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS
We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK
I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word...
BRIAN ANDREAS
If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.
BRIAN BUFFINI
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r...
BRIAN HWANG
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY
There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
BRIAN HAYS
If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
BRIAN HAYS
It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...
BRIAN FRIEL
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
BRIAN HWANG
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,...
BRIAN TRACY
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...
BRIAN TRACY
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...
BRIAN TRACY
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
BRIAN TRACY
To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not...
BRIAN INGLIS
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha...
BRIAN TRACY
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
BRIAN TRACY
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
BRIAN TRACY
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
BRIAN TRACY
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...
BRIAN TRACY
Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...
BRIAN TRACY
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
BRIAN TRACY
Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.
BRIAN O'SHAUGNESSY
Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE
Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
BRIAN KLEMMER
Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despa...
BRIAN KEENAN
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE
All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every resp...
BRIAN TRACY
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...
BRIAN TRACY
I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.
BRIAN LITTRELL
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
BRIAN LITTRELL
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kid...
BRIAN LITTRELL
The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what...
BRIAN LITTRELL
I like being able to know what our fans are thinking about the material that is on the record, as we...
BRIAN LITTRELL