457 Quotes by 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.

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

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

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

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

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

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.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.