“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and… — 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'm constantly trying to make what Stephen King called head movies or skull movies: things should be playing out on the inside… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I… — 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
“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
Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or… — 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
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 can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best &… — 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
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
“Even today I keep a Dream Journal. It's whatever's going on in my subconscious, or things from dreams or even interesting items… — 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
“Don't bury personal obsessions. Capitalize on them. ``The connection between personal obsession and the work you do is the most important thing.''… — 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
“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
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
“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
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy. — 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
