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Glen Duncan

British Author

Born: 1965

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My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate. Glen Duncan

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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. Glen Duncan

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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Glen Duncan

Sewage Systems Know Literature Much English English Literature

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

Films Paranormal Absorb Mainly Come Gothic

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

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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

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

Best Had Sellers Won Prizes Any

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

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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

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I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. Glen Duncan

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My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India. Glen Duncan

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The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go. Glen Duncan

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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

For the minimum-wager with Caligulan needs, the glory days are soon over. Glen Duncan

Needs Soon Over Days Glory

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. Glen Duncan

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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. Glen Duncan

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I'm too conceited for therapy. Glen Duncan

Too Conceited Therapy

I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry. Glen Duncan

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