174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

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.

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

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

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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

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.