British - Author | 1965 -
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.
Glen Duncan
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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.
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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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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.
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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
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My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.
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I'm too conceited for therapy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
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What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.
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