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born 1953 England

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is a British writer, most famous for his influential work in comic-books and graphic novels.

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Also known as: Moore, Alan

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You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.

Swamp Thing (1983)

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared.

Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying to load my argument, of course.

The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else.

Watchmen (1986)

There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather.

Swamp Thing (1983)

As soon as you realize everything's a joke, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Watchmen (1986)

Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound, its eyes hungry...hungry for the moon.

Further to this, there is a point sometime around 2015 where human information is doubling every thousandth of a second.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

I believe in some sort of strange fashion that the presence of the atom bomb might almost be forcing a level of human development that wouldn’t have occurred without the presence of the atom bomb.

Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel … with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.

You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head.

Swamp Thing (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.