Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer's, invokes occult necessities.

— Glen Duncan

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

— Glen Duncan

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

— Glen Duncan

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

— Glen Duncan

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

— Glen Duncan

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

— Glen Duncan

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

— Glen Duncan

There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke, but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and then you can take. Dementia’s the sane realization you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

— Glen Duncan

... vampire ruler In Kaur implemented howler aversion therapy.

— Glen Duncan