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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
Power
Think
Kind
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" I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life. "
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Like
Inspiration
Real
" I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say. "
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Say
Whatever
Character
" Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. "
Grant Morrison
Character
Recognition
Book
" I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. "
Grant Morrison
People
Friends
Great
" 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. "
Grant Morrison
Playing
Time
Only
" The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations. "
Grant Morrison
See
Through
Superman
" Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in. "
Grant Morrison
Than
Rather
Consciousness
" It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic. "
Grant Morrison
Me
Shy
College
" I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle. "
Grant Morrison
Happy
Expectations
Men
" Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa. "
Grant Morrison
Love
Books
You
" I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies. "
Grant Morrison
Started
Up
Always
" I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week. "
Grant Morrison
Nineties
Dancing
Every
" Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. "
Grant Morrison
Day
Failure
Grief
" There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process. "
Grant Morrison
Struggle
Birth
Done