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
ideas brilliant muse
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
long frank has-beens
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
war men people
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
thinking world expecting
I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.
heart doe chasms
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?
vaudeville world stage
The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
mind body different
I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.
thinking movement failing
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
daughter mother children
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter… Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.
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.
ideas people comforting
A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.
country night men
No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
stress past reality
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past