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" 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. "

Glen Duncan

Book

Waiting

Talents

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Glen Duncan

Entertainment

Want

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

" One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were. "

Glen Duncan

Things

Seems

" My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India. "

" 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?' "

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

" Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. "

" 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. "

" I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me. "

Glen Duncan

Own

My Own

" I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. "

" There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt. "

" I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish. "

Glen Duncan

Feeling

" 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. "

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

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

" Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation. "

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

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

" We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. "

" I'm too conceited for therapy. "

" 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. "

" I am a man of lost faiths. "

Glen Duncan

Man

Faiths

" 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 straight page-turner, with no literary conceits. "

" My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. "