Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. — Glen Duncan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.” — Glen Duncan Nothing Copy Share Image
“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.” — Glen Duncan Thought Copy Share Image
My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'? What? So that the audience would know it wasn't.” — Glen Duncan Case Closed Copy Share Image
“He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking… — Glen Duncan Love Copy Share Image
You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite… — Glen Duncan Beauty Copy Share Image
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. — Glen Duncan Life Copy Share Image
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. — Glen Duncan Alter ego Copy Share Image
“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you… — Glen Duncan Cinema Copy Share Image
“It's a ridiculous story, of course, but history's full of ridiculous stories. 'You can't make this shit up,' one finds oneself saying,… — Glen Duncan History Copy Share Image
“The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do… — Glen Duncan Freedom Copy Share Image
“There are things you think you won’t be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If… — Glen Duncan Faith Copy Share Image
Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is… — Glen Duncan Creation Copy Share Image
“We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of us moving in together. With Mark, domestic intimacy had become domestic claustrophobia; and had riddled romance (though she… — Glen Duncan Fear Copy Share Image
“It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“And saying it--the first time we say it and mean it-- we cross over into that other world that has so far… — Glen Duncan Dreams Copy Share Image
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and… — Glen Duncan Art Copy Share Image
“You took a life and the theft went unpunished. God didn't strike you down. The sky didn't fall. The morning after, you… — Glen Duncan Consequences Copy Share Image
“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred… — Glen Duncan Love Copy Share Image
“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity… — Glen Duncan Dreams Copy Share Image
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. — Glen Duncan Change Copy Share Image
“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
