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" What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films. "
Glen Duncan
Mainly
Gothic
Films
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" Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. "
Glen Duncan
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Were
Rumsfeld
" 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
Me
Own
My Own
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
Place
Horror
India
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
Happy
Book
Reading
" 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
More
Entertainment
Want
" Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it. "
Glen Duncan
Smell
Everyone
Escape
" I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. "
Glen Duncan
Story
Language
Care
" 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
Think
Interesting
Look
" I'm too conceited for therapy. "
Glen Duncan
Therapy
Too
Conceited
" My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India. "
Glen Duncan
Only
Who
Family
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
You
Time
Starting
" If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it. "
Glen Duncan
Business
Hunger
Powerful
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
Devil
People
Character
" Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. "
Glen Duncan
Much
Systems
Literature
" I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. "
Glen Duncan
Life
Things Happen
Think
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
Short
Will
Myself
" Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. "
Glen Duncan
Dreams
Dream
Fairy
" I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. "
Glen Duncan
Purpose
Used
Signs
" 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
" 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
Me
" My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. "
Glen Duncan
Happy
Parents
Believe
" While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies. "
Glen Duncan
Writing
Watch
Movies
" 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
Me
Like
Feeling
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
End
Story
Man
" 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. "
Glen Duncan
You
Sell
Said
" My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. "
Glen Duncan
Everything
You
Position
" I am a man of lost faiths. "
Glen Duncan
Man
Am
Faiths
" 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?' "
Glen Duncan
You
Two
Ways
" I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. "
Glen Duncan
Sellers
Prizes
Had
" I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. "
Glen Duncan
Kind
Magic
Old