Quotes by Warren Ellis

About Warren Ellis:

Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics, mind transfer, and human enhancement). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England.
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The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno.

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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

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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 st...

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You never get tired of looking at the stars

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

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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

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Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained at...

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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the b...

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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

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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.

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I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

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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.

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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

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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.

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

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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

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

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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.

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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

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Author Bio

  • NameWarren Ellis
  • DescriptionEnglish comics and fiction writer
  • BornFebruary 16, 1968
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer