Grant Morrison quotes

Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright, renowned for their innovative and boundary-pushing stories in comics such as "The Invisibles," "Batman," and "All-Star Superman." Their work is celebrated for blending pop culture, the occult, and philosophical themes. They have influenced a new generation of writers and expanded the possibilities of the comic book medium. Here are 62 of her quotes:

Everything is literally entangled, it can all be communicated with and affected 'at a distance' because there is no distance, only a simulation of apparent separation which our limited consciousness feeds us second by second at 11 bits. The 'telepathy' which brings people together is no more or less supernatural or unlikely than the 'telepathy' which brings two of your fingers together when you think about it. Patience, participation and constant close observation of what's going on, on the inside and on the outside will soon make you a fine sorcerer, if that's what you want to be.

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I must admit to being increasingly deranged by the kinds of bizarre myths which have grown like moss around my name in comics fan circles - I keep coming up against this idiot savant image; me reflected back at myself as a shambling, incoherent drug addict, wanking and drooling out meaningless gibberish which can only be understood by 'those lying bastards' who claim they can see 'Magic Eye' 3-d pictures and wee men reading the news on the TV. (2004) Popimage interview.

Grant Morrison

I use media exposure as a means of playing with multiple personalities. Each interview is a different me and they're all untrustworthy (2000)

Grant Morrison

Let's face it; regular monthly superhero comic books have taken on the look and smell of old men's pants. It's hardly a surprise comics lost the teenage audience or that the adult audience is now bored and irritated by the endless recycling of images they've already seen and words they've already read. (2003)

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I love to work in the comics medium -- I really do -- and I've realised that a total contempt for the intelligence of the audience is the key to success. You know that Doom Force thing I did recently for D.C.? -- the pisstake of X-Force, right? Well, eighty percent of the people who sent letters of comment in on the story actually took the thing seriously! They didn't see the joke! It's horrific. Tom Peyer phoned me up and read page after page of these insane letters. That was the turning point. That is the moment that I became a super-villain. (1992)

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"Real life?" What's that? (2003)

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

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There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Grant Morrison

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

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Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

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I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

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The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

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Only nothing is impossible.

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Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.

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One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

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Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

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Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

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I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

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Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker.

Grant Morrison

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

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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.

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