One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
Alan MooreRead
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
Interpretation
Alan Moore reflects on how his career path diverged from his original goal of being an underground cartoonist.
In this quote, Alan Moore expresses that his journey in the graphic novel industry did not align with his initial dream of producing underground comics. He describes this transition as a 'long diversion,' suggesting a sense of reflection on how creative ambitions can evolve and lead to unexpected paths.
In practice
In a speech about pursuing artistic dreams, you might use this quote to illustrate how career paths can change unexpectedly.
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
Love your rage, not your cage.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
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