To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Before she could look to find a wound he had control of the vision once again, but like a juggler attempting to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Where else can bubble-gum hearts, the dream travellers, the serial killers, and the occasional guest-star from beyond the grave occupy the same… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“In my mind the river flows both ways. Forward, to the explanation of things; to a destination which will justify the agonies… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I keep a bedside journal. I am very affected by dream information. They might be scary to other people, but they're mine,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I dreamed a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance. On every line there was a new horizon… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red… — Clive Barker Copy Share
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard,… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.” — Clive Barker Copy Share
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to… — Clive Barker Copy Share
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The exclusionist is… — Clive Barker Copy Share
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they… — Clive Barker Copy Share
