457 Quotes by Clive Barker

There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.

A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

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

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

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