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
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us. — 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
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
