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
dream sometimes wonder
Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?
hunters way weakness
Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.
madness enough
Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
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.
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.
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.
dog bored trying
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.
reading talking stories
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.
sense-of-humor kipling reconstructing
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...
teenager struggle past
X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.