Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcockis an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 December 1939
ambition heart brain
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
land names benefits
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.
real successful legends
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
past trouble
It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.
impossible opinion theory
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
past rewriting scripts
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
years editors attention
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
looks knows
I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
our-world population helping
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.
soul attention stories
And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!
mean men thinking
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
fate people self-made
Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
lying profound conviction
It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.
men thinking return
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.