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.
From Glen Duncan
Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.
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.
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.
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