“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, sitting on my bunk, I cried. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of… — Glen Duncan 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
“All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The moment you think is unbearable forces you to disappoint yourself by bearing it. There's resigned laughter available, for the hilarity of… — Glen Duncan 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 Copy Share Image
“From a floor below someone was singing with a karaoke machine, Paul McCartney's 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time,' completely out of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Every time I saw Muslim masses bowed in prayer or the Catholic faithful gathered all I saw was fear. Moronically nodding Hasidim,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I saw our future together compressed into a moment; our faces changing, desire having to cope and reinvent itself at each new… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan 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 a gentleness… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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
I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I… — Glen Duncan 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 only as… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
