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“I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.”
Alan Moore
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“I love films that are made with almost no budget.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I love films that are made with almost no budget.”
Alan Moore
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“I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.”
Alan Moore
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“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”
Alan Moore
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“If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.”
Alan Moore
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“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 MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by 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
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“I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.”
Alan Moore
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“I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.”
Alan Moore
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“I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.”
Alan Moore
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“It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”
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“Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.”
Alan Moore
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“War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.”
Alan Moore
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“It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.”
Alan Moore
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“When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.”
Alan Moore
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“Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.”
Alan Moore
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“A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.”
Alan MooreWriter
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Alan Moore
“A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.”
Alan Moore
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“I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.”
Alan Moore
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“There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.”
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“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 MooreWriter
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“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
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“London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.”
Alan Moore
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“I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.”
Alan Moore
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“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 MooreWriter
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“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
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“I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.”
Alan Moore
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“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.”
Alan MooreWriter
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“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.”
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