On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — 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
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
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
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.… — 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
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity,… — 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 Image
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 Image
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
