Clive Barker

“You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.”

— Clive Barker

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

That which is imagined can never be lost.

— Clive Barker

“Discretion’s the better part of valor,”

— Clive Barker

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

— Clive Barker

“My books are my confessions.”

— Clive Barker

Always, worlds within worlds.

— Clive Barker

“Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone”

— Clive Barker

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

— Clive Barker

“They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.”

— Clive Barker

“Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.”

— Clive Barker

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

— Clive Barker

“If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it”

— Clive Barker

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

— Clive Barker

“All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.”

— Clive Barker

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

— Clive Barker

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

“We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but —" He shrugged. "— so would you if…

— Clive Barker

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

— Clive Barker

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

— Clive Barker

The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.

— Clive Barker

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma…

— Clive Barker

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state…

— Clive Barker

“You only saw the darkness, Tammy. There was another side to her. I think there always is, don’t you? There’s always some…

— Clive Barker

Teaming up with Adaptive Studios and Shudder is a wonderful opportunity to support emerging filmmakers in finding the new horror icon. This…

— Clive Barker

Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I…

— Clive Barker

“The sight of her had pierced him, making her the enterer, had she but known it, and him the entered. Perhaps she…

— Clive Barker

“Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right…

— Clive Barker

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that?…

— Clive Barker

“Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often…

— Clive Barker

Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt…

— Clive Barker

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with…

— Clive Barker

“Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What…

— Clive Barker

“I can guess what you think about her, and I’d probably be thinking the same thing if I was standing where you…

— Clive Barker

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.…

— Clive Barker

“As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before…

— Clive Barker

“And the stories she'd been told, were they confessions of uncommitted crimes, accounts of the worst imaginable, imagined to keep fiction from…

— Clive Barker

We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody…

— Clive Barker

“So discretion was the by-word. They would take meant only when the hunger became crippling, and only then victims who were unlikely…

— Clive Barker

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker