Clive Barker > Quotes

“So saying,”
― Clive Barker, Abarat

“In a town where words were cheap, talk could be expensive.”
― Clive Barker, The Great And Secret Show

“That’s a whole other story.’ ‘Is it?’ Gentle replied. ‘Or is it all one?”
― Clive Barker, Imajica: A spellbinding epic fantasy novel

“She’d taken the harlot century she’d been born into for granted, knowing no other, but now — seeing it with his eyes, hearing it with his ears — she understood it afresh; saw just how desperate it was to please, yet how dispossessed of pleasure; how crude, even as it claimed sophistication; and, despite its zeal to spellbind, how utterly unenchanting.”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“In my mind the river flows both ways. Forward, to the explanation of things; to a destination which will justify the agonies of travel. And back, back to a time when the river was real, and those who wandered along its banks had little interest in visions.”
― Clive Barker, Chiliad: A Meditation

“When it was all done, Suzanna found her voice, thanking both the grave diggers and their mothers. “After all that digging,” said the eldest of the girls, “I just hope he grows.” “He will,” said her mother, with no trace of indulgence. “They always do.” On”
― Clive Barker, Weaveworld

“ananged”
― Clive Barker, Everville

“hurt people hurt people,”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“The Pantheons made themselves apparent in the blink of an eye; perhaps less. At one instant the planet was a place of faith, doubt, and godlessness, the next there was room for none of these. Who needed faith when the senses confirmed all? As for doubt and godlessness, they were absurdities now that every deity that had ever appeared in human consciousness (and some several hundred thousand who had never made it) had manifested themselves. The Coming was indiscriminate; it made no distinction between great divinities and small. There were vast and transformative powers abroad, deities that brought with them fleets of angelic vehicles and all manner of divine paraphernalia, but there were also threadbare local gods, guardians of painted rocks, spirits of bamboo groves; presences that healed sores and brought lovers, demons who haunted empty roads and forsaken hotels. A world of yearning and need was suddenly a place of surfeit; and the end of mankind began, for there was nothing left invisible, or unknowable, and therefore nothing left to hope for or desire.”
― Clive Barker, Chiliad: A Meditation

“I don’t plot or outline, though I may take a few notes here and there, instead I let my dream world fill up each night with a segment of the story. I do this without worrying about it, or trying to force it, and when I wake up the dream bag is full, and I can go to my writing desk, and dream all over the page.”
― Clive Barker, Where Nightmares Come From

“Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite”
― Clive Barker

“We cannot believe, we men, that power will ever reside happily in the body of a woman, unless that power is a male child. Not true power. The power must be in male hands, God-given. That's what our fathers tell us, idiots that they are”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“There’s nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him,” Zeffer pointed out. “He wouldn’t do it for you.” “I know that.”
― Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story

“We’re making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.”
― Clive Barker

“Discretion’s the better part of valor,”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“Do demons have ghosts?' Norma asked him.
'Of course,' Knotchee replied. 'There will always be those who won't let go of who they were.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“but she felt as though whatever she’d been given in the Devil’s Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.”
― Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story

“Hayal edilen asla yitirilmez.”
― Clive Barker, Weave World

“Having a routine that bordered on stagnancy had its benefits.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 5

“a creature of impulse.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“from it and into some chamber of his soul where he had never been before. It was numinous, this place, and filled with little games to enchant his pain-wearied body.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Dead isn’t bad,” Narcisse said. “It isn’t even that different.”
― Clive Barker, Cabal

“And whatever she suffered, he will suffer so much worse, so much worse. However loudly she cried, and begged him to stop, her murderer will cry out more loudly.”
― Clive Barker, Chiliad: A Meditation

“Why? What is his intention? Have you at least discovered that?” “The same as ours, we think,” Felixson said. “The getting and keeping of power. He hasn’t just taken our treaties, scrolls, and grimoires. He’s cleared out all the vestments, all the talismans, all the amulets—” “Hush,” Ragowski said suddenly. “Listen.” There was a silence among them for a moment, and then a funereal bell chimed softly in the distance. “Oh Christ,” Lili said. “It’s his bell.” The dead man laughed. “He’s found you.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“Besides, he guessed she wouldn’t have thanked him for delaying his purchase. She needed dope more than she needed him.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 3

“Maybe if they didn't tell you the stories ... they'd actually go out and do it.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 5

“alter”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 4