Clive Barker Quotes

• Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading

• Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Wisdom

• Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Inspirational

• I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,
  I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,
  I dreamed I was my own beloved,
  I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.
  I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
  And when I breathed a garden came,
  I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
  I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.
  I dreamed–and this dream was the finest–
  That all I dreamed was real and true,
  And we would live in joy forever,
  You in me, and me in you.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Poetry

• What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Deliver, Tried

• You can plan to be brave – it’s even better if you just try to be brave.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Brave

• I’m a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die – it’s a major offence.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Fanatic, Personally

• It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Great, Understand

• My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination

• Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Moment, Story

• I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else – but I’m absolutely nothing special.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Special

• 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.

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Feeling, Look, Evidence

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

  Clive Barker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Regular, Violent

Clive Barker (13)

Birth:	5th October, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Playwright, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England. He is an English actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and painter best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. 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. He was educated at University of Liverpool, where he studied English and Philosophy. He is also the writer of the best-selling Abarat series and plans on producing two more novels in the series. He wrote the screenplays for Underworld and Rawhead Rex, both directed by George Pavlou.

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