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
long patterns imagine
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
men thinking people
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
past train-of-thought finding-yourself
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
stories
Everybody has their story to tell.
hate two people
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
long empires fingers
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
air should vendetta
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
release
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?
peace war men
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
art sleep writing
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
firsts chaos authority
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
children selfish taken
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 the world.
whim murderer
Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.
past jewels design
There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.