Lovecraft Quotes:

The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.

- S. T. Joshi

topic: Lovecraft, Masters, Genre

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

- Stephen King

topic: Way, Done, Lovecraft

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Attention, Pay, Lovecraft

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

- Scott Adams

source: "The Call of Cthulhu". Short story by H.P. Lovecraft, www.hplovecraft.com. 1928.

topic: Ignorance, Views, Sea, Placid, Lovecraft

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

- Stephen King

topic: Thinking, Doubt, Classic, Lovecraft

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

- China Mieville

topic: Interviews, Amazon, Idiot, Capricious, Godlike

Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.

- Leah Moore

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Giving, Needs, Use, Lovecraft

[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H.P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Spiritual, Atheist, Believe, Lovecraft, Tesla

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

- Hal Duncan

topic: Jeter, Fiction, Yeats, Pinter, Joyce

H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

- Howard Waldrop

topic: Summer, Senior, Jobs, Lovecraft

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Thinking, Suffering, Way, Lovecraft

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Stripes, Delight, Might, Lovecraft

Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words, it's not being revealed to you.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Mean, Talking, Heaven, Lovecraft

For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Atheist, Years, Agnostic, Lovecraft

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Book, Thinking, Library, St Thomas, Lovecraft

I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Mean, Sasquatch, Stuff, Allan Poe, Lovecraft

I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those are Pickman's paintings." I said, "I thought this was like something he made up, like The Necronomicon, that kind of stuff." And he said no, that the guy actually existed.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Mean, People, Guy, Lovecraft

It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Real, Writing, Ghouls, Lovecraft

I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Lovecraft

In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to create the mood. If you read "Pickman's Model," in other words, they're winding their way through the Boston Streets and [H.P.] Lovecraft researched what was there.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Journey, Boston, Able, Lovecraft

I started with "Pickman's Model," because it was about Boston. I mean, what I loved about [H. P. Lovecraft], at first is his sense of scholarship of an area, setting an environment, enlivening it. I think that's one of the secrets of writing.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Mean, Writing, Thinking, Lovecraft

The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean." "Who's-" "Because you're gay.

- David Wong

topic: Real, Mean, Gay, Lovecraft

I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

- Fred Seibert

topic: Heart, Dark, Imagination, Lovecraft, Heart Warming

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Dance, Girl, Dancing, Lovecraft, Telling It Like It Is

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

- Stephen King

source: "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

topic: Teenager, Guy, Style, Lovecraft

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Virginia, Want, World, Woolf, Lovecraft

[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Home, Cities, Space, Lovecraft, Anti Christ

You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you know. It just comes out once in a while in the pop culture.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Reading, Thinking, Devil, Jagger, Lovecraft

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Thinking, People, Impossible, Lovecraft

H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down and crawl around inside it. But, look, the guy was eating poorly, he had like a quart of ice cream a day. He was suffering constantly near the end. He wasn't concerned with his body at all, not the way we're concerned with our bodies nowadays.

- Paul Laffoley

topic: Ice, Guy, Suffering, Hegel, Lovecraft