Quotes by Clive Barker

About Clive Barker:

Clive Barker is 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 known as the Books of Blood which established him as a leading young 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, which won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

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She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she u...

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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...

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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

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I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are w...

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Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.

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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.

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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

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Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

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As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been before the fire. I had my mother’s lips, generous below and above; and what kissing I had practiced, mainly on my hand or on a lonely pig, had convinced ...

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You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

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The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

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Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.

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We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

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Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

Clive Barker

As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough t...

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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

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The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.

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Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

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Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

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Author Bio

  • NameClive Barker
  • Descriptionauthor, film director and visual artist
  • BornOctober 5, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Novelist; Writer; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Actor; Playwright; Designer; Painter; Illustrator
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award