I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I was always aware of the ticking clock of time, always. I was very aware that I had a lot to do,… — 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
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 was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway… — 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
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'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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The exclusionist is… — Clive Barker Copy Share
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they… — Clive Barker Copy Share
