Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken… — Glen Duncan 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
The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's… — Glen Duncan Animal Copy Share Image
For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was… — Glen Duncan Blessings Copy Share Image
One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would… — Glen Duncan 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
Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them… — Glen Duncan Age Copy Share Image
“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell,… — Glen Duncan Art Copy Share Image
“Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and… — Glen Duncan Life Copy Share Image
“Thus she's discovered the Conradian truth: The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it...You do what you do… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“(I invented rock and roll. You wouldn't believe the things I've invented. Anal sex, obviously. Smoking. Astrology. Money ... Let's save time:… — Glen Duncan Rock and roll Copy Share Image
“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“Catholicism fascinated him, the contortions it put itself through to make ends meet. Father Murray had kept returning to the word 'despair.'… — Glen Duncan Holy spirit Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Assault Copy Share Image
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,… — Glen Duncan Autonomy Copy Share Image
“Heaven's heard us down here, cackling at our piss-takes and chortling at our quips; I've seen the looks, the suspicion that they're… — Glen Duncan Comedy Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy… — Glen Duncan Curse Copy Share Image
If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there… — Glen Duncan Appetite Copy Share Image
“Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion?… — Glen Duncan Character Copy Share Image
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it… — Glen Duncan Enters Copy Share Image
“Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only… — Glen Duncan Darkness Copy Share Image
“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael” — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.” — Glen Duncan Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would… — Glen Duncan Books Copy Share Image
“He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.” — Glen Duncan Mind Copy Share Image
“Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose… — Glen Duncan Dinner party Copy Share Image
“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The truth doesn’t care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can’t blame the truth.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
