A biography for Glen Duncanhasn’t been written yet.
“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...”
“I am a man of lost faiths.”
“My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.”
“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.”
“I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.”
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.”
“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.”
“Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?”
“Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.”
“We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.”
“We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.”
“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.”
“What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.”
“I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.”
“While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.”
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
“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 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.”
“My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.”