Top 27 Quotes by Clive Barker

About Clive Barker

These are some quotes by English author Clive Barker Writer, who was born on October 5, 1952.

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

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

Clive Barker

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

Clive Barker

There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.

Clive Barker

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Clive Barker

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Clive Barker

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.

Clive Barker

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.

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.

Clive Barker

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

Clive Barker

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

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

Clive Barker

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