Believe Quotes by Clive Barker

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

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

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

“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

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

— Clive Barker

“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

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

— Clive Barker

“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

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

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

“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

Always, worlds within worlds.

— Clive Barker

“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

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

“Horror shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory.”

— Clive Barker