I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting. Alan Moore More Quotes by Alan Moore More Quotes From Alan Moore Everybody has their story to tell. Alan Moore stories As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it. Alan Moore successful softball believe I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time. Alan Moore past moving thinking If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist. Alan Moore artist would-be wanted To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself. Alan Moore writing book art Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat. Alan Moore shapes rats running I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all. Alan Moore magic culture thinking There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Alan Moore writing believe art There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. Alan Moore flesh blood ideas Love your rage, not your cage. Alan Moore vendetta cages rage Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is. Alan Moore reality ideas thinking I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer. Alan Moore The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind. Alan Moore humans god mind I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore library opportunity today Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Alan Moore insidious vendetta prison It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. Alan Moore voice opportunity people There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses. Alan Moore relapse quitting sometimes Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely. Alan Moore lonely reflection men Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. Alan Moore plot gun reason-why The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word. Alan Moore language perception reality
