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Glen Duncan Quotes

British - Author | 1965 -

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

Dreams Me Dream Bed Fairy Stories

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.

Me Think Feeling Begin Like 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.

You Said Write Something Going Sell

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.

Me Writing Plans Way My Own Own

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.

Age Football Waiting Book Over Get

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

Good Character Story Care Language

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.

Myself Short Stop Say Will Never

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

Best Prizes Won Any Had Sellers

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

Seen Screen Times Werewolf Hundreds

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.

Age Now Nothing Courtesy Up Imagery

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.

Man World Book Story End Feel

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.

Time Happy Parents Proud Reading

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