History Quotes / WarrenEllis

->''You learn to write from reading books, and living your life, and investigating the inside of your own head. Next, you learn how to write comics by pulling them apart and studying their innards to see how they work. This is how you end up as a 24/7 comics writer and also a terrifying shut-in who will eventually go nuts in a very public way and conclude your career as a figure in a newspaper photo captioned FOREST CREATURE SUBDUED BY POLICE TASERS. But I'm serious. You are going to learn how to do this – learn your own way to manage the difference in pacing between eight pages and twenty-two pages and one hundred and twenty pages, learn how to achieve effects in timing and drama and emotional nuance, learn when to talk and when to shut up – by studying the best comics you can find, and tearing them apart and seeing how they do things and then stealing the tools you can use and adapting them into your own style. You are going to want to read broadly. Make yourself read things you wouldn't ordinarily look at. If superheroes are your favourite, then make yourself read Carla Speed McNeil or Dan Clowes or Marjane Satrapi. If you only read science fiction comics, then force yourself to look at Hugo Pratt and Eddie Campbell and Svetlana Chmakova.

Growing up, my favourite comics writer was Alan Moore. But I learned just as much, if not more, from studying Eddie Campbell, Philippe Druillet, Bryan Talbot, Glenn Dakin, Carol Swain, Will Eisner and a hundred other people.

-->--''About the Author'' cover blurb for {{Planetary}} vol. 2

->''A lot of people — including some respected professionals — told me that lowering the price of a comic was suicide. We're probably going to top out at around 25,000. So, basically, up your arses.''
-->--'''Creator/WarrenEllis''' about the sucess of ''{{Fell}}''

->''"You can't write a graphic novel thinking about a future movie because that way leads to madness or MarkMillar."''

->''And for those who think I’m being anti-American, consider this: in Britain, we’d just have the SAS kill them in their beds. You people are young, and have not let learned how to do business."''

-->--'''Creator/WarrenEllis''' explains his motivations behind ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute''.

->"It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, "We'd really like you to write a Franchise/{{GI JOE}} animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer."
->I said, "I've never seen a GI JOE cartoon in my life. The closest I got to a GI JOE comic was drinking with LarryHama. I've never even seen a GI JOE. Couldn't tell you what they look like if you paid me. I know nothing about GI JOE. It is meaningless in my world."
->"Excellent," Sam said. "Just the guy we need."
->It was hard not to notice, at this point, that Sam Register is crazier than a shithouse rat. Therefore I decided to take the job."

->''"[[Creator/AvatarPress William Christensen]] is a betting man, and a while back he made me three bets. He bet me I couldn't get a [[ComicBook/BlackGas new spin out of the zombie story]]. He bet me I couldn't write a [[{{Wolfskin}} fantasy story]]. And he bet me I couldn't get a [[BlackSummer new angle on the superhero story]].[...] And now I own several of William Christensen's internal organs."''

-->--'''WarrenEllis''', discussing the difference between ''[[Comicbook/CivilWar Civil War]]'' and ''BlackSummer''

->''"[[Creator/AvatarPress William Christensen]] is a betting man, and a while back he made me three bets. He bet me I couldn't get a [[BlackGas new spin out of the zombie story]]. He bet me I couldn't write a [[{{Wolfskin}} fantasy story]]. And he bet me I couldn't get a [[BlackSummer new angle on the superhero story]].[...] And now I own several of William Christensen's internal organs."''

->It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, "We'd really like you to write a Franchise/{{GI JOE}} animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer."

->It was hard not to notice, at this point, that Sam Register is crazier than a shithouse rat. Therefore I decided to take the job.

->It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, "We'd really like you to write a {{GI JOE}} animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer."

-->''WarrenEllis'' explains his motivations behind ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute''.

--->-- '''Rob Bricken''' of ToplessRobot

->''"What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am {{Batman}}."''
--->-- '''WarrenEllis'''

--->-- '''WarrenEllis'''

->''[[AvatarPress William Christensen]] is a betting man, and a while back he made me three bets. He bet me I couldn't get a [[BlackGas new spin out of the zombie story]]. He bet me I couldn't write a [[{{Wolfskin}} fantasy story]]. And he bet me I couldn't get a [[BlackSummer new angle on the superhero story]].[...] And now I own several of William Christensen's internal organs.''
--->-- ''WarrenEllis''

--->-- ''WarrenEllis about the sucess of {{Fell}}''

--->-- ''WarrenEllis''

->''It is so fucking cold. Outside, the sky's cut in half. There's this huge black cloudbank covering half the sky, just radiating cold and rain and doom, waiting for me to step outside. And it's not moving. It's waiting. The other half? Blue sky. Every erg of heat in England just flying up through it into space. There's some Russian bastard on the ISS right now looking down and saying, see, my country is saved, the Russian winter is moving east to FREEZE WARREN'S NUTS OFF.''
--->--''WarrenEllis''

->''You can't write a graphic novel thinking about a future movie because that way leads to madness or MarkMillar.''
--->--WarrenEllis

->''StephenKing says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means '''he''', not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.''
--->--WarrenEllis

->''Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means '''he''', not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.''

-->''WarrenEllis'' explains his motivations behind ''GIJoeResolute''.

->''Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means '''he''', not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulae Stephen King at home.''

->It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, "We’d really like you to write a {{GI JOE}} animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer."
->I said, "I’ve never seen a GI JOE cartoon in my life. The closest I got to a GI JOE comic was drinking with Larry Hama. I’ve never even seen a GI JOE. Couldn’t tell you what they look like if you paid me. I know nothing about GI JOE. It is meaningless in my world."

-->''WarrenEllis'' explains his motivations behind GIJoeResolute.

''"I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk."''

->''It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, "We’d really like you to write a {{GI JOE}} animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer."

->It was hard not to notice, at this point, that Sam Register is crazier than a shithouse rat. Therefore I decided to take the job.''

--->-- '''Rob Bricken''' of [[http://www.toplessrobot.com Topless Robot]]

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