Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith 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
“Handwriting everything, for me, is psychologically useful because it keeps my writing economical. I think there are word processor styles emerging. Something… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I think it's an indulgence to [write] the other [non-linear] way. I think it's a kind of cowardice. There are places in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Whether you are a good or bad writer is an irrelevancy when you first begin. What's important is that you write, you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Every day is a writing day. I get to my desk between 8 and 8:30 in the morning and then work through… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I do three drafts handwritten and then it's typed up... They are different from each other, they are hopefully improvements in the… — 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
![“I think it's an indulgence to [write] the other [non-linear] way. I think it's a kind of cowardice. There are places in anyone's books that are going to be easier than other parts. And if when you come to a part that's difficult and think, 'Hm, I'll skip that,' all you're doing is lining up these…” quote by Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f2/clive-barker-773_big-book_i-think-it-s-an-indulgence-to-write-the_3031826.jpg)
