Writing Quotes by Alan Moore

Alan Moore

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

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Alan Moore

I don’t really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There’s still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree… I don’t know. They’re a wonderful art form, but they’re not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

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Alan Moore

I don’t think there’s really any difference between art – or writing, or music – and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

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Alan Moore

I’m dependent on writing for a living, so really it’s to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you’re going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

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Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I’m having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry – that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn’t cost much to do that.

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Alan Moore

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you’re writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader’s brain.

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Alan Moore

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

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Alan Moore

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

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Alan Moore

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

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Alan Moore

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.

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