Top 25 Garth Ennis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.”

— Garth Ennis

2. “I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.”

— Garth Ennis

3. “Wouldn’t want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn’t want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn’t mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.”

— Garth Ennis

4. “Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it’s characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You’re not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.”

— Garth Ennis

5. “Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.”

— Garth Ennis

6. “I’m sweetness an’ motherfuckin’ light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit’ love.”

— Garth Ennis

7. “I can’t really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.”

— Garth Ennis

8. “I’m the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I’ve got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I’ll drive your demons away. I’ll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they’re down and then I’ll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?”

— Garth Ennis

9. “Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an’ religion, the two worst things on the planet.”

— Garth Ennis

10. “With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.”

— Garth Ennis

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11. “I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don’t have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you’ve designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.”

— Garth Ennis

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12. “Larger than life character; a couple of hundred years ago he would have been a pirate. “When in evil company, try to blend in” – that was one of his.”

— Garth Ennis

13. “Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.”

— Garth Ennis

14. “As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.”

— Garth Ennis

15. “Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don’t want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.”

— Garth Ennis

16. “Reggie Atkinson: Oh God. Oh God. I went to war with the Nazis... and for 25 years, all I’ve been scared of is Americans.”

— Garth Ennis

17. “I’m sure you’re aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.”

— Garth Ennis

18. “Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.”

— Garth Ennis

19. “It’s nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.”

— Garth Ennis

20. “There’s immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.”

— Garth Ennis

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21. “If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.”

— Garth Ennis

22. “The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn’t allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn’t let me take the characters seriously.”

— Garth Ennis

23. “So who turned up the volume of ignorance up to eleven?”

— Garth Ennis

24. “I tend to forget what I’m doing will ever be read while I’m writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.”

— Garth Ennis

25. “It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don’t really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I’d like to do.”

— Garth Ennis

26. “I get down on my knees every mornin’ an’ give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.”

— Garth Ennis

27. “I don’t necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there’s nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.”

— Garth Ennis

28. “Every dent, every scratch, every mark, tells a story. A story that ends with me, winning.”

— Garth Ennis

29. “I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.”

— Garth Ennis