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
reality stuff way
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.
marketing phrases idiot
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
thinking republic outcomes
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
cities dying wipe
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
hippie would-be fandoms
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
children roaches heroin
I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
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.
love-you mean heart
But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.
firsts language consciousness
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
home reality profound
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
beautiful imagination dear
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
rorschach hopeless
Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
religious party organization
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.