Hal Duncan Quotes
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.
Quotes to Explore
-
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
-
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
-
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
-
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
-
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
-
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
-
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
-
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
-
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
-
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
-
Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
-
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
-
I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
-
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
-
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
-
I’ve gone through a couple of periods where I’ve lost the plot a little bit. That’s when you need good people around you.
-
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.
