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Grant Morrison Biography

Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics's Animal Man, Batman, JLA, Action Comics, All-Star Superman, Vertigo's The Invisibles, and Fleetway's 2000 AD. He is also the co-creator of the Syfy TV series Happy! starring Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt.

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Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

Beach, Count, Country, Empty, Grains, Ocean

It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.

Couple, Real, Smart, Tastes, Wider

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.

Come, Enough, Ideas, Like, Space, Years

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

Art, Fans, Form, Sense, Wider

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

Gotham, Madness, Sometimes

X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good
new and bad
old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.

Clinging, Hopes, Past, Struggle, Teenager

A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.

Dvds, Fundamental, Material, Passive, Player, Reading

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

Bullet, Bullets, Changing The World, Right, World

American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

Dog, Future, Powerful, Story, Superman, Writing

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

Infinity, Interior, Portal, Skulls

Who needs girls when you've got comics?

Comics, Girl, Girls, Needs

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic.

Different, Doe, Everyone, Life, Magic

Only nothing is impossible.

Impossible, Nothing, Nothing Is Impossible

Adults. . . struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

Children, Desperately, Empire, Real, Run, Running

I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()

Labelled, Long, Pain, People, Sadness

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

Ban, Giving Up, Kill, Refuse, Superhero, Wish

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

Consciousness, Participate

My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes. . . The fear was practically edible. Nothing would happen unless I get out and make it happen. Then, as if handling me the keys to the jet pack, my dad bought me a typewriter and a taped message to the inside of its case: "Son - the world is waiting to hear from you".

Art, Dad, Fear, Fist, Fragile, School

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

Big, Enough, Problem, Things, Thinking

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Book, Point, Real, True, Vice, Vices

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