Michael Moorcock Quotes (1939-)

“It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white.”

“I said: “Then in reality I had little choice.” “Let us say that your character has already determined your choice.””

“Violence creates nothing but violence, no matter what we call it and what the excuse. And so it goes, down all the centuries.”

“By telling a single lie to oneself or to another, by denying a single fact of the world as it has been created, one adds to the World’s Pain.”

“I not only questioned the possibility that salvation existed; I questioned whether God’s salvation was worth the earning. Again I began to see the struggle between God and Lucifer as nothing more than a squabble between petty princelings over who should possess power in a tiny, unimportant territory. The fate of the tenants of that territory did not much seem to matter to them; and even the reward of those tenants’ loyalty seemed thin enough to me.”

“A whole tangle of series, possibly including everything Moorcock's written, not excluding his grocery lists, but I'm not sure; certainly includes most of his fantasy. Various subseries are declared complete every so often, as for example in an ad for the Last Elric Book in the current issue of F&SF; such declarations sometimes prove true, but on the other hand, I've seen several previous Last Elric Books.”

“Moorcock is an erudite Left-anarchist and a giant of fantasy literature. Almost everything he’s written is of interest, but Hawkmoon is chosen here in honor of Moorcock having said about it: “In a spirit consciously at odds with the jingoism of the day, I chose a German for a hero and the British for villains.””