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Warren Ellis Biography

Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including Transmetropolitan (1997–2002), Global Frequency (2002–2004), Red (2003–2004)—adapted into the feature films Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013)—Trees (2014–present), and Injection (2015–present). Ellis is the author of the novels Crooked Little Vein (2007) and Gun Machine (2013), and the novella Normal (2016).

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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

Edginess, Miserable, Mood, Perfect, Tired

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Bad Ass, Entire, Everyone, Optimistic, Suicide

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

Criminals, Gun, Join, Meals, Training

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.

Brain, Day, Heavy, Morning, Smoking

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Believe, Responsibility, Set, Shows, Television, Thinking

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Forever, Harder, Heart, Shitbag, Tattoo

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

Etc, Focus, Future, Shagging, Writing

Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.

Jobs, People, Pretty, Punching, Writing

Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer. '

Hours, Notebook, Shining, Unless, Years

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end. " That's how much better it is.

Bad Ass, Book, Dutch, Novel, Sex, World

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.

Air, Brain, Colour, Dog, Eight, Walkable

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Bits, Contemporary, Fiction, Literary, Probably

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

Bad Ass, Doors, Mad, Nailing, Priest, Taken

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him. " Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

Character, Ideas, Misses, Moore, Personalities, Writing

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

Comic Book, Comics, Cutting, Power, Read, Stealing

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.

Batman, Claimed, Drunk, Past, Sometimes

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

People, Thinking, Tradition, Use

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

Bastards, Live, Writers

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

Hole, Ideas, Kill, Long, People, Under

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.

Bad Ass, Daleks, England, Government, Morning, Window

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