Ask the Author: Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
That's an easy one. The Bible.
Clive Barker
It is a dream which I think is almost a universal dream, which is a dream of stasis. Utter stasis. I'm certain I'm awake, but I am unable to move, and utterly trapped by the knowledge that I'm conscious.
Clive Barker
It was something I did....
And because of that and because of a court case which is ongoing, I can say no more!
And because of that and because of a court case which is ongoing, I can say no more!
Clive Barker
I don't count words. I still write by hand. But I've always considered twenty handwritten pages to be a good day.
Clive Barker
Some of them even follow me into my dreams.
Clive Barker
I beg to differ. I don't think I write horror. I am a man who invents worlds of dark, and light, and somewhere in between, but the idea of writing something just to horrify people is rather trite, I think. I want to distress and disturb and wake people up to the condition of the state we find ourselves in. And those are the kinds of stories I prefer to read as well.
Clive Barker
I don't have an answer for that. I think singularities are very hard. I get tired with the culture's pre-occuption with 'this person is more important than that person' when in actual fact it really all just depends on mood, doesn't it? Anna Karenina doesn't fill me with lust, but there are times I don't want to feel lustful.
Clive Barker
A creature is at its most terryfing when you are unable to find anything about it to love.
Clive Barker
It's the other way around. They find me. And the ones that refuse to let go are the ones I have not choice but to listen to.
Clive Barker
I firmly believe that a horror story is only as good as its villain.
Clive Barker
Absolutely. Imajica. It was my gift to myself on my 40th birthday.
Clive Barker
A husband and wife with no children of their own woke to the sound of a crying baby, its despairing shrieks emanating from their closet. The husband investigated, and only found more questions when he uncovered the hidden shoebox containing polaroids of his wife as a pregnant teenager.
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