20 Astounding Quotes By - Alan Moore

20 Astounding Quotes By - Alan Mooree

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

— Alan Moore

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

— Alan Moore

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

— Alan Moore

You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

— Alan Moore

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

— Alan Moore

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

— Alan Moore

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.

— Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

— Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

— Alan Moore

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

— Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

— Alan Moore

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

— Alan Moore

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

— Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

— Alan Moore

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

— Alan Moore

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

— Alan Moore

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

— Alan Moore

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

— Alan Moore

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

— Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

— Alan Moore

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