Clive Barker

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The…

— Clive Barker

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and…

— Clive Barker

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

— Clive Barker

“Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be…

— Clive Barker

“How many human eyes ... had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?”

— Clive Barker

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well,…

— Clive Barker

“Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.”

— Clive Barker

“There’s nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him,” Zeffer pointed out. “He wouldn’t do it for you.” “I know that.”

— Clive Barker

I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come…

— Clive Barker

“We made our choice, he said. We hunted for them, we guarded their brats. God knows, we helped them make a civilization,…

— Clive Barker

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.…

— Clive Barker

“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on…

— Clive Barker

“Her streak of independence, which had first brought her to this unfriendly city, was in studied defiance of her smothering appetite for…

— Clive Barker

“He stood dressed in voluminous robes of thrice-burned silk (the blackest, most portentous; the silk of all melancholias) and studied the lightless…

— Clive Barker

“Nobody's allowed to come and mourn, you see. Out of sight, out of mind: that's the idea. Of course, that's not the…

— Clive Barker

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you…

— Clive Barker

“though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars. There were no revelations to be had there.…

— Clive Barker

“Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not the…

— Clive Barker

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

She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have…

— Clive Barker

“(...) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.”

— Clive Barker

“You think I’m finished, so you’re leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country.”

— Clive Barker

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next…

— Clive Barker

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that…

— Clive Barker

“Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they…

— Clive Barker

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view…

— Clive Barker

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from…

— Clive Barker

“but she felt as though whatever she’d been given in the Devil’s Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and…

— Clive Barker

“This is a forsaken place...I can think of no use for a place like this, except that you could say of it:…

— Clive Barker

“I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to…

— Clive Barker

“Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.”

— Clive Barker

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

— Clive Barker

“Living and dying we feed the fire,” Steep said softly. “That is the melancholy truth of things.”

— Clive Barker

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's…

— Clive Barker

“You want my advice! Kiss the Devil, eat the worm. -- Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade”

— Clive Barker

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including…

— Clive Barker

“For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the…

— Clive Barker

“I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In…

— Clive Barker

“Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.”

— Clive Barker

It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring…

— Clive Barker