“The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.” Quote by Hal Duncan
“A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.” WellsEndsDoneStoriesMightHoursEditingSessionPolishedCaffeineNicotine Author:Hal Duncan
“Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.” PeopleMeanLittlesNamesInterestingReaderErrorsContemporaryTranslations Author:Hal Duncan
“I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.” WantedJusticeOriginalsVersionsPoeticVersesFireworks Author:Hal Duncan
“I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.” ThinkingLongImportantCharacterStoriesCertainFineTypeAbsenceEndlessBullshitQuota Author:Hal Duncan
“Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.” StoriesShowsTodaySpeakWaterNovelTvsTownsThirstTv ShowsCentreFountainGhettoRepresentingWater Fountain Author:Hal Duncan
“Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.” FictionInfluenceStrangeUniversityGenreDiscoveringPower Of LoveBlakeJoyceBorgesLovecraftYeatsJeterPinter Author:Hal Duncan
“I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.” StoriesTermNumbersWrittenShapesBallsMeetingsAvailableSettingSettingsNarrativeOnlineTargetRollingBlogsArcsDonationDownloadsPaypal Author:Hal Duncan
“During my childhood years in a Catholic school, one teacher who was more nuts than the rest told me I'd fry in hell if I were a lesbian so I thought maybe the best idea was to be straight.” IfsYearsIdeasSchoolHellTeacherChildhoodCatholicBeing The BestNutsCatholic School Author:Olof Arnalds
“Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.” PeopleGenderInterpretation Author:Olof Arnalds
“I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.” MadeFatherParentBornGrewDadGrew UpMovedMy DadCaliforniaBoardsHawaiiSurferHomemadeSkateboarding Author:Christian Hosoi