There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a… — 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
There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
"Magic is the first and last religion of the world. It has the power to make us whole, to open our eyes… — 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
And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that… — 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
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
