I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“He had one room above a thrift store. He had a trunk of books by Ayn Rand. He was short-sighted and reclusive,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“A choking dry-ice smog of disappointment, pooling in the drops and troughs of suddenly uncertain ground. Mudyards, wit here and there the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Rorschach: You know we can't let you do that Adrian Veidt: Do? Do what Rorschach? I'm not a comic book villain. Do… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore Copy Share
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore Copy Share
“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the… — Alan Moore Copy Share
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist… — Alan Moore Copy Share
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with… — Alan Moore Copy Share
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up… — Alan Moore Copy Share
“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry” — Alan Moore Copy Share
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore Copy Share
“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives,… — Alan Moore Copy Share
