Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Mooreis an English writer primarily known for his work in graphic novels including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been called "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years". He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Translucia Baboon, and The Original Writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 November 1953
blue rose violet
Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true.
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
mediums industry
I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
kings sheep black
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
coincidence illusion
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.
lonely world bigs
Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely...
world clock made
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
numbers mind neurons
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
artist would-be wanted
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
book chance adaptation
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 so in the future.
order luxury long
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
country america superhero
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
lonely pain solitude
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.