Quotes by Alan Moore

“There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.”

“I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn'€™t think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: Keep in a dry place...”

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

“There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. As a res...”

“Now they’re called ‘graphic novels’, which sounds sophisticated and you can charge a lot more for them. What appealed to me most about comics is no more, and these innocent and inventive and imagin...”

“I didn’t mean my experiments with comics to be immediately taken up as something that the whole industry should do. When I was doing things like ‘Watchmen,’ I was not saying that dark psychopathic ...”

“I don’t really feel, with the recent films, that they have stood by what I assumed were their original principles. So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or fil...”

“Maybe the world..has run out of room..for monsters.”

“There is a red and angry world... Red things happen there. The world eats your wife... Eats your friends... Eats all the things... that make you human... And you become a monster. And the world... ...”

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

“Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder!”