Alan Moore Quotes

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• Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there…
• I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go…
• I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps…
• I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits…
• I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is,…
• I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems…
• I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is…
• I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of…
• If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps…
• 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 of…
• If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly…
• In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of…
• In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and…
• In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically…
• It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games…
• Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground,…
• Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for…
• My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations,…
• My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they…
• Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then…

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