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
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams. — 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
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
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her.… — 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… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has 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
Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world.… — 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
