Top 100 Grant Morrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense – Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA.”

— Grant Morrison

52. “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.”

— Grant Morrison

53. “We’re the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.”

— Grant Morrison

54. “Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.”

— Grant Morrison

55. “Words are ugly when they travel in packs.”

— Grant Morrison

56. “Kipling: Where’s your sense of humor? Rebis: We’re working on reconstructing it...”

— Grant Morrison

57. “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.”

— Grant Morrison

58. “Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there’s no longer the merchandising aspect.”

— Grant Morrison

59. “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.”

— Grant Morrison

60. “I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.”

— Grant Morrison

61. “Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there’s something terribly wrong with us.”

— Grant Morrison

62. “I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I’ve lived with it for a while.”

— Grant Morrison

63. “I have to confess I’m not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.”

— Grant Morrison

64. “I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It’s only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don’t mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.”

— Grant Morrison

65. “The thing that’s been exciting about ‘Superman’ is to see how the character has developed through generations.”

— Grant Morrison

66. “I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”

— Grant Morrison

67. “Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.”

— Grant Morrison

68. “Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.”

— Grant Morrison

69. “Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

— Grant Morrison

70. “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.”

— Grant Morrison

71. “One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”

— Grant Morrison

72. “Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.”

— Grant Morrison

73. “Remember it’s all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.”

— Grant Morrison

74. “Magneto Was Right’ – Quentin Quire.”

— Grant Morrison

75. “The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the ‘X-Men’ movies.”

— Grant Morrison

76. “These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.”

— Grant Morrison

77. “All I know is that you won’t come back until they’re all dead. ‘Eternity.’ Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses.”

— Grant Morrison

78. “I can always see ways to improve what I’ve done. At the same time, knowing it’s all an ongoing life’s work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.”

— Grant Morrison

79. “Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that’s like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.”

— Grant Morrison

80. “I’m at a stage in my career where I don’t expect or get too much editorial input into what I’m doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.”

— Grant Morrison

81. “I love ‘Batman.’ I love the Adam West ‘Batman.’ I love the animated ‘Batman.’ The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it’s survived so many different media.”

— Grant Morrison

82. “The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?”

— Grant Morrison

83. “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.”

— Grant Morrison

84. “Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum.”

— Grant Morrison

85. “The big problem is time. I don’t have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.”

— Grant Morrison

86. “When was the last time you had a thought that wasn’t put there by THEM?”

— Grant Morrison

87. “Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads through the holy places. Do all this and watch the people decline. Without souls, they soon die, leaving dead shells, zombie cultures, shambling aimlessly towards oblivion.”

— Grant Morrison

88. “Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you’ve met along the way.”

— Grant Morrison

89. “Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.”

— Grant Morrison

90. “I guess my inspiration is this – I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to ‘Batman’ was real and is part of this one guy’s life.”

— Grant Morrison

91. “I’m a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.”

— Grant Morrison

92. “It’s hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who’s a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.”

— Grant Morrison

93. “I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I’ve known. And I’m not a great comic reader.”

— Grant Morrison

94. “I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It’s more like sculpture than construction.”

— Grant Morrison

95. “From now on, I’m opting for ontological terrorism.”

— Grant Morrison

96. “The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it’s the same the other way round. I can’t explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.”

— Grant Morrison

97. “Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony – is inexhaustible.”

— Grant Morrison

98. “Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.”

— Grant Morrison

99. “I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can’t allow their opinions to dictate story direction.”

— Grant Morrison

100. “Pop, like Chronos the Titan, always eats its darlings.”

— Grant Morrison