Garth Ennis Quotes

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

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

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

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.

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

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

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.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in NY.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.