02UndatedI was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.Clive Barker / quote ↗
03UndatedI can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it's the best & the worst of worlds, because the only fuel you have to make the fire blaze on the page / screen is the stuff of your own being. An artist consumes his or herself in the act of making art. I can feel that consumption even now, sitting here at my desk at the end of a working day. In order to generate the ideas that I have set on the page for the last 10 or 11 hours I have burned the fuel of my own history. This is, obviously a double-edged sword. In order to give, the artist must take from himself. That's the deal. And it's very important to me that the work I do is the best I can make it, because I know what is being burned up to create. As the villain of Sacrament says: "living & dying, we feed the fire.Clive Barker / quote ↗
04UndatedPerhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.Clive Barker / quote ↗
05Undatedyou must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.Clive Barker / quote ↗
06UndatedA sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world? You just believe me when I tell you... there's no way to live your life to the full and not have a reason to shed a tear now and again. It's not a bad feeling, child. That's what a lament does. It makes you feel happy to be sad, in a strange way. D'you see?Clive Barker / quote ↗
07UndatedMen. Young men. Legal age, mind you. But young nonetheless. And it’s not what you think. When we meet, we make … magic.Clive Barker / quote ↗
08UndatedI really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.Clive Barker / quote ↗
09UndatedThose old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!Clive Barker / quote ↗
11UndatedMeaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning.Clive Barker / quote ↗
12UndatedWalk 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.Clive Barker / quote ↗
13UndatedDarkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? It’s only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimes—if necessary—brought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.Clive Barker / quote ↗
14UndatedAll Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.Clive Barker / quote ↗
15UndatedEvil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak, to actually state their case, is perverse - because I want to hear the Devil speak. I like the idea that a point of view can be made by the dark side.Clive Barker / quote ↗
16UndatedSpring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.Clive Barker / quote ↗
17UndatedO little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.Clive Barker / quote ↗
18UndatedAll things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - PeloquinClive Barker / quote ↗
19UndatedDorothea: "What the fuck are you?"Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.Clive Barker / quote ↗
20UndatedKaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.Clive Barker / quote ↗
21UndatedHere are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it, most will go on peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, a chosen few, the horrors will come, skipping to fetch them off to the highway of the damned...Clive Barker / quote ↗
22UndatedLiving in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.Clive Barker / quote ↗
24UndatedYou’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.Clive Barker / quote ↗
