Quotes from Garth Ennis

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

Reggie Atkinson: Oh God. Oh God. I went to war with the Nazis... and for 25 years, all I've been scared of is Americans.

I guess this is where they send the abortions that live.

Sheriff Root: Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers Deputy: How you reckon that, Sheriff Root? Sheriff Root: Kinda thing they do Deputy: What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that? Sheriff Root: MARTIAN niggers

Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.

For The Motherland, I used to say. The rest still do. Believers all. 'Rina as a matter of faith. Lydi with all her brave young heart. Vera growls it aloud with every shot. For The Motherland. I recall the flare of warmth it brought, the comfort on each step through hell. But those days are behind me now. The words I need, I cannot speak. To accompany a bullet I can never fire.

Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.

That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day.

Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?' 'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.

I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.

Harry Constantine: It happens to us all. We get a sniff of sorcery and Oh! what plans we make! We'll shake Creation and leave nothing but smiles and wit and a reputation all men envy!

Things aren't so bad if you can laugh at the Devil

Harry Constantine: We've let a moment's warmth put off decision's chill. I don't want to go back below, John, bastard though I am. I want to rest. John Constantine: You're a bastard all right, Harry... But one bastard can forgive another. Who else will?