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" I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are. "

Glen Duncan

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Glen Duncan

Feeling

" I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror. "

" Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. "

" If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. "

Glen Duncan

Entertainment

Want

" 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. "

" While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. "

" 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. "

" We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets. "

" 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. "

Glen Duncan

Courtesy

Visual

" Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. "

" Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it. "

" I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. "

" My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. "

" I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry. "

" 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?' "

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" I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. "

" I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. "

" Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents. "

" I'm too conceited for therapy. "

" The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go. "

" I am a man of lost faiths. "

Glen Duncan

Man

Faiths

" I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. "

" 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. "