Michael Moorcock Quotes
Top 59 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michael Moorcock
Michael Moorcock Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Michael Moorcock on Wise Famous Quotes.
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.
There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.
We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.
If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men.
Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!
But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.
In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.
He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.
Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future.
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience.