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
change hell landmarks
Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.
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.
character generations exciting
The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.
knowing done way
I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.
thinking problem enough
The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.
dream children intelligent
Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.
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.
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.
mean wonderland use
I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.
girl intelligent elements
When [Wonder Woman creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn't even appeal to girls.
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.
thinking talking superhero
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.
upset use matter
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
people labels feels-right
I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.