Glen Duncan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Glen Duncan quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 39 we have.
“One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.”
“There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'”
“We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.”
“I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.”
“As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.”
“I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.”
“We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.”
“Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.”
“Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.”
“For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.”
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