Words matter. These are the best Warren Ellis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
For me, the Internet’s like music. I don’t like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I’d know if it wasn’t there. If that makes sense.
The things I have sold to film, I’ve sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven’t sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn’t killing our children. It isn’t killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, ‘Gun Machine’ is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that ‘niche’ or ‘subculture’ are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.
I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
I’ve always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist’s work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
I’d like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it’s such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
The lesson of ‘CSI’ is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.
I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
