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Top 10 Hal Duncan Quotes (2024 Update)

Hal Duncan Quote: “Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.”

1. “Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance – skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability – you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.”

2. “Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance – skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability – you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Find the truth and spread the lie.”

3. “Find the truth and spread the lie.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.”

7. “Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.”

8. “The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured “translation errors” could create interesting new meanings.”

9. “Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured “translation errors” could create interesting new meanings.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.”

10. “Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “I’m sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of “nil paseran” – “none shall pass” – in the face of fascism?”

12. “I’m sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of “nil paseran” – “none shall pass” – in the face of fascism?”

Hal Duncan Quote: “I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.”

13. “I wish I had the strength to make an outcast of myself.”

Hal Duncan Quote: “Let sleeping gods lie.”

14. “Let sleeping gods lie.”

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