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
If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness.… — 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
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
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