I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

— Clive Barker

Clive Barker Quotes

You’ll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

— Clive Barker

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight’s stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now – in this bright, laughing moment – and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

— Clive Barker

Fun

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

— Clive Barker

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

— Clive Barker

I’ve never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

— Clive Barker

Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

— Clive Barker

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

— Clive Barker

We are the star and the darkness it peirces.

— Clive Barker

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

— Clive Barker

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn’t there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

— Clive Barker

Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.

— Clive Barker

Words are sexier than flesh.

— Clive Barker

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat.

— Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

— Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

— Clive Barker

Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.

— Clive Barker

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

— Clive Barker

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

— Clive Barker

I’ve dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I’m determined not to be that.

— Clive Barker

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

— Clive Barker

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