If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set? Warren Ellis More Quotes by Warren Ellis More Quotes From Warren Ellis You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism. Warren Ellis edginess tired perfect Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists. Warren Ellis bad-ass dream ideas Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. Warren Ellis car forever brain There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution. Warren Ellis long people ideas Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power. Warren Ellis comic-book stealing cutting Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night. Warren Ellis hunters honor night Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.' Warren Ellis notebook shining years The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. Warren Ellis space-flight running way Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded. Warren Ellis writing character ideas Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way. Warren Ellis strange way world He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets. Warren Ellis sleep men night Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy! Warren Ellis sexy drinking fun What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman. Warren Ellis bad-ass joy world The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is. Warren Ellis bad-ass book sex Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure. Warren Ellis writing jobs people What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it? Warren Ellis left what-if memories Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world. Warren Ellis bad-ass gun blow By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. Warren Ellis bad-ass optimistic suicide Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. Warren Ellis scotch angel morning Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking. Warren Ellis use people thinking
