Quotes of Warren Ellis - somelinesforyou

“ Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy! ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy! ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ 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. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ 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. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly. Build an eye. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis

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

- Warren Ellis

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis
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