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I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off. - Clive Barker
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We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool. - Clive Barker
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All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. - Clive Barker
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I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms. - Clive Barker
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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
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I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. - Clive Barker
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I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lemarchand - who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, 'Well, what would have happened to him?' He might well have been taken to Devil's Island, and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie. - Clive Barker
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My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that. - Clive Barker
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I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens. - Clive Barker
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Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best. - Clive Barker
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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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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. - Clive Barker
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Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. - Clive Barker
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I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us. - Clive Barker
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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work. - Clive Barker
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You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. - Clive Barker
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain. - Clive Barker
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We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard. - Clive Barker
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Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix. - Clive Barker
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