“Can you hear me, Todd? There’s an ambulance on its way.” For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“In moments they would be here — the ones Kircher had called the Cenobites, theologians of the Order of the Gash. Summoned… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Darkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars. There were no revelations to be had there.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that?… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange little toys. One of… — 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
O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over:… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in… — 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
[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
“I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything... — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“[Imajica took] fourteen months from the time I first put pen to paper till the day I turned it in. That was… — 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
“He gave a moment’s consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.” — 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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