While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. — Glen Duncan Change Copy Share Image
“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.” — Glen Duncan Nothing Copy Share Image
“The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. — Glen Duncan Beautiful Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.” — 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 Smoke Copy Share Image
“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.” — Glen Duncan Cynicism Copy Share Image
“It’s why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God . It’s not a cry to the Divine, it’s a recognition of their… — Glen Duncan Divine Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The collective human unconscious can't stand it, the thought of stuff going on forever, so has decided (collectively, unconsciously) to bring the… — Glen Duncan Apocalypse Copy Share Image
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you… — Glen Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the… — 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… — Glen Duncan Accidents Copy Share Image
“It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your… — Glen Duncan Birth Copy Share Image
“Vengeance for the murdered supposed the dead enjoyed sufficient afterlife to appreciate their efforts. The dead enjoyed nothing of the kind. The… — Glen Duncan Vengeance Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan Addiction 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
“The absurdity of it, she thought, this quest for the love of a man who was her equal. She loathed herself for… — Glen Duncan Adventure Copy Share Image
“Like her, he didn't buy the Nietzschean line that whatever didn't kill you made you stronger. Sometimes whatever didn't kill you disfigured… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I know what the majority of you think about all this. All this sex and money and drugs. You think: people who… — Glen Duncan Envy Copy Share Image
This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I… — Glen Duncan Action 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
“Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body’s dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough… — Glen Duncan Comedy 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
“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
In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions.” — Glen Duncan Good intentions Copy Share Image
“She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.” — Glen Duncan Heart Copy Share Image
My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
