Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.
Clive BarkerNothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
Clive BarkerIf you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
Clive BarkerGather 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 BarkerOf all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
Clive BarkerThose old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Bookโs full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. Whatโs that if itโs not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
Clive Barker