To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
"Alan Moore" is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been called "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years". He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as "Curt Vile", "Jill de Ray", "Translucia Baboon" and "The Original Writer".
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Alan Moore on Wikipedia.Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong.
Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters - these figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they've got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum.
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
War is a perversion of sex.
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
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