Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison, MBE is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright, and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics's Animal Man, Batman, JLA, Action Comics, All-Star Superman, Vertigo's The Invisibles, and Fleetway's 2000 AD...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 January 1960
real plot ends
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
reading names actors
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
treason commit highest
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
dream thinking glasses
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.
responsibility superhero hopeful
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.
perception theatre each-day
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.
girlfriend character people
Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.
accomplishment soul want
My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.
running praying madhouses
I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.
real dark two
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need.
trying sticks stories
I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.
dream children intelligent
Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.
doors people long
Stop being frightened. You only see a monster because they want you to see monsters everywhere. They've conditioned you to look for monsters in every shadow, every coat hung on every door. As long as we keep seeing monsters, we'll continue to need protection and that's how other people get to control our lives.
strong work-out territory
I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.