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
bars prison vendetta
I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.
art writing purpose
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
believe everyday stuff-happens
I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
desire desire-for-success fear-of-failure
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
stars names space
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.
mother eye rorschach
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
thinking interesting superhero
I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.
real cat light
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
practice ideas growth
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous
brother dragons black
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
dream adventure character
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.
responsibility thinking roots
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
ideas brilliant muse
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.