Quotes by : Glen Duncan

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

Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the....

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.....

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has....

I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising:....

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's....

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window....

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.....