Clive Barker

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its…

— Clive Barker

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

I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon…

— Clive Barker

“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on…

— Clive Barker

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

— Clive Barker

“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story…

— Clive Barker

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

— Clive Barker

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of…

— Clive Barker

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can…

— Clive Barker

Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that…

— Clive Barker

“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined…

— Clive Barker

Always, worlds within worlds.

— Clive Barker

“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

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

“Horror shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory.”

— Clive Barker

If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

— Clive Barker

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can…

— Clive Barker

The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.

— Clive Barker

“We made our choice, he said. We hunted for them, we guarded their brats. God knows, we helped them make a civilization,…

— Clive Barker

'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.

— Clive Barker

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

— Clive Barker

“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

“I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In…

— Clive Barker

When I was looking for financing while making 'Hellraiser,' I wish there was a studio like Project Greenlight Digital Studios behind me.

— Clive Barker

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it…

— Clive Barker