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
skulls infinity portal
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
stars ocean thinking
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.
dream sometimes wonder
Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?
dog powerful writing
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
boys palaces
There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
spiritual ocean self
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.
hunters way weakness
Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.
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.
real heart artist
Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.
madness enough
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
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.