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Michael John Moorcock is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and 70s.

As editor of the British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His publication of Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament some British MPs condemned the Arts Council for funding the magazine. He is also a successful recording musician, contributing to the bands Hawkwind, Blue Öyster Cult and his own project.

In 2008, The Times named Moorcock in its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Wikipedia  

✵ 18. December 1939   •   Other names مایکل مورکوک, Μάικλ Μούρκοκ
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Michael Moorcock Quotes

“Time to be moving; moves to be timing.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Beyond the X ecliptic (p. 314)

Time

“The poor man has sacrificed himself for others, but he could not help resenting them from time to time.”

Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet

The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Ex-bank clerk slave girl in private sin palace (p. 172)

Time , Help

“You think we are in danger there?”

Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords

Source: Book 3, Chapter 3 “The Conjunction of the Million Spheres” (pp. 379-380), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
Context: “Danger? It depends what you regard as dangerous. Some wisdom may be dangerous to one man and not to another.”

Thinking

“It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe.”

Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords

Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)

“Chaos delights in creation but swiftly becomes bored with what it creates for it seeks not order or justice or constancy but sensation, entertainment. Sometimes it suits it to create something which you and I would value or find pleasure in. But it is an accident.”

Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords

Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)

Justice , Pleasure

“Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.”

Michael Moorcock

Source: Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Lake of Voices” (p. 197), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)

Law

“Such speculation leads us nowhere and everywhere, but it makes no difference to our understanding of our immediate problems.”

Michael Moorcock

Source: Book 1, Chapter 1 “What the Sea God Discarded” (p. 165), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)

Understanding , Problem

“Everything may exist for a short while—even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal’s tragedy that he can never accept this.”

Michael Moorcock book The Knight of the Swords

Source: Book 3, Chapter 6 “The God Feasters” (p. 139), Corum, The Knight of the Swords (1971)

Justice , Universe

“The sentient may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentient.”

Michael Moorcock book The Knight of the Swords

Source: Prologue (p. 9), Corum, The Knight of the Swords (1971)

Universe , Love