Michael Moorcock

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make…

— Michael Moorcock

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of…

— Michael Moorcock

“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.”

— Michael Moorcock

“This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as "that bastard Klaw.”

— Michael Moorcock

“The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction…

— Michael Moorcock

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

— Michael Moorcock

I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into…

— Michael Moorcock

“Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are…

— Michael Moorcock

“IT IS THE colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From…

— Michael Moorcock

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

— Michael Moorcock

And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know,…

— Michael Moorcock

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the…

— Michael Moorcock

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

— Michael Moorcock

“She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in…

— Michael Moorcock

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

— Michael Moorcock

“But I tell you this, Sepiriz—given the opportunity I shall make that god rue his homecoming, for he has done the one…

— Michael Moorcock

“Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner…

— Michael Moorcock

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could…

— Michael Moorcock

“To seek pain as a form of salvation is to destroy oneself.”

— Michael Moorcock

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad…

— Michael Moorcock

“She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than…

— Michael Moorcock

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

— Michael Moorcock

“Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!”

— Michael Moorcock

“they are a most depressed and depressing group, for they are all, you see, exiles or refugees or travelers between the worlds…

— Michael Moorcock

“I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.”

— Michael Moorcock