Glen Duncan Quotes & Sayings

“If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.”

“Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation.”

“I'm too conceited for therapy.”

“I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.”

“I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.”

“Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.”

“I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.”

“I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.”

“I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.”

“My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.”