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I don't like to think of my readership as fans, a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

Grant Morrison

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Grant Morrison
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 31
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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.
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With Marvel and DC, you're working with their pre-established fictional universes and characters. At those places, you're working with characters who will outlive you and maybe your children and your childern's children. Batman will outlive me, Spider-Man will outlive me, the Avengers will outlive me, and so it goes.
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Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
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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.
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When [Wonder Woman creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn't even appeal to girls.
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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.
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We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
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Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.
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