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
people trying groups
It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.
shy parades persons
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
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.
vaudeville world stage
The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
stupid hate thinking
I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.
kicking-it people trying
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
rorschach locked-up locked
None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.
thinking mad people
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history.
political liquid kind
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.
writing trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
law mad trying
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
change ideas bulletproof
Ideas are bulletproof.
artist would-be wanted
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.