I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I dreamt 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
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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 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
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I'm constantly trying to make what Stephen King called head movies or skull movies: things should be playing out on the inside… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — 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
Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to… — 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
Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them… — 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
“This book is so huge, that the mythology took many months to create. There are literally hundreds of characters , and many… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I think it's an indulgence to [write] the other [non-linear] way. I think it's a kind of cowardice. There are places in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that's not what it's about. It… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
![“I think it's an indulgence to [write] the other [non-linear] way. I think it's a kind of cowardice. There are places in anyone's books that are going to be easier than other parts. And if when you come to a part that's difficult and think, 'Hm, I'll skip that,' all you're doing is lining up these…” quote by Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f2/clive-barker-773_big-book_i-think-it-s-an-indulgence-to-write-the_3031826.jpg)
