Quotes from Clive Barker

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

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

I'm feeling much better than I have been for many years. You know, I... there have been a couple of days when I thought maybe I wasn't going to make it to the evening. I don't feel that anymore.

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

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

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.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.