Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
Alan MoorePlease! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.
Alan MooreWho makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be thereโฆa clock without a craftsman.
Alan MooreI believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousnessโฆ Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.
Alan Moore