I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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 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
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — 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
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of… — 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
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
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody… — 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
