Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barkeris an English writer, film director, and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series. He was the Executive Producer of the film Gods and Monsters...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 October 1952
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.
Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.
Always, worlds within worlds.
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.
Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.