Grant Morrison

Grant Morrison

Comic Book Writer, Novelist

Grant Morrison is a renowned comic book writer known for his innovative storytelling and exploration of reality in works like 'The Invisibles'.

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Born
January 31, 1960
Quotes
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Rank
#977

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"Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really basic idea. He's a good guy. He loves us. He will not stop in defending us. How beautiful is that? He's like a sci-fi Jesus. He'll never let you down. And only in fiction can that guy actually exist, because real guys will always let you down one way or another. We actually made up an idea that beautiful. That's just cool to me. We made a little paper universe where all of the above is true."

Beautiful Jesus Real
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"Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams."

Dream Children Intelligent
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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."

Inspirational Life Special Way
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"I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle."

Jobs Men Expectations
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"Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker"

Madness Enough
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"Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need."

Real Dark Two
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"Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained."

Real Plot Ends
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"Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman."

Real Artist Generations
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"We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility."

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

Treason Commit Highest
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"It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor."

Distance Stupid Night
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"It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd."

Perception Theatre May
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"I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that."

People Labels Feels Right
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"I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God."

Running Praying Madhouses
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"We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens."

Children Reality Doctors
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"Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something."

Girlfriend Character People
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"When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?"

Lasts Last Time
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"Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket."

Winning Magic Desire
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"And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death."

People Way Ends
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