Grant Morrison Quotes

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

This is the end of our sentence

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

The first light had cast the first shadow.

It’s mostly just you have to convince yourself that there’s nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses

And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

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.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

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.

The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

No matter how shitty things are, you can always get a song out of it.

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.