Michael Moorcock Quotes

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• The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

  Michael Moorcock

  Book, Literary Merit, Rewards

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• The Lords of Chaos are
  the enemies of Logic,
  the jugglers of Truth,
  the molders of Beauty

  Michael Moorcock

  Enemy, Logic, Chaos

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• 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.

  Michael Moorcock

  Mean, Mad, Legends

  Michael Moorcock (2016). “Mother London”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.

  Michael Moorcock

  Peace, Imperfect World, Opposites

  Michael Moorcock (2009). “Duke Elric”, p.127, Del Rey

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• Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

  Michael Moorcock

  Home, Koalas, Bullshit

  Michael Moorcock (2009). “The Best of Michael Moorcock”, p.146, Tachyon Publications

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• Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, Destiny, Champion

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• There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

  Michael Moorcock

  Heart, Ambition, Brain

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• The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

  Michael Moorcock

  Lying

  Michael Moorcock (2014). “Elric: The Revenge of the Rose”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

  Michael Moorcock

  Cages, Prisoner, Knows

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• I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

  Michael Moorcock

  Thinking, Ideas, Bigs

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.439, Del Rey

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• Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

  Michael Moorcock

  Treasure, Care, Reckless

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.14, Del Rey

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• The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Scripts, Rewriting

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.21, Del Rey

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• Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Men, Secret

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.385, Del Rey

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• When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.

  Michael Moorcock

  Atheist, Children, Responsibility

  Michael Moorcock (1988). “The chronicles of Castle Brass”

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• Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, People, Self Made

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• It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

  Michael Moorcock

  Lying, Profound, Conviction

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey

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• Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

  Michael Moorcock

  Writing, Character, Plot

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• Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

  Michael Moorcock

  Ambition, Race, Finals

  "Phoenix in Obsidian". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.

  Michael Moorcock

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Edginess

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• Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

  Michael Moorcock

  Taken, Destiny, Challenges

  "Phoenix in Obsidian". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

  Michael Moorcock

  Cousin, Lying, Destiny

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey

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• It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Trouble

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• Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

  Michael Moorcock

  Real, Successful, Legends

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.284, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Michael Moorcock

  Kings, Fall, Age

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• It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

  Michael Moorcock

  Opinion, Impossible, Theory

  "Fantastic Metropolis", Christmas Editorial, December 9, 2001.

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