Clive Barker Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

  Clive Barker

  Halloween, Book, Equality

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Jul 28, 2013

• Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s 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

  Book, Wine, Hypocrite

• I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New heavens supposed; New states, new souls.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Heaven, Soul

  Clive Barker (2011). “Abarat”, p.11, Harper Collins

• My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.

  Clive Barker

  Father, Book, Self

  Clive Barker (2010). “Everville”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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

  Clive Barker

  Book, Looks, Honest

• I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

  Clive Barker

  Book, People, Painting

• 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

  Book, Thinking, Trying

• Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Writing, Masturbation

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 04, 2013

• I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.

  Clive Barker

  Sex, Book, Together

  "Clive Barker Speaks Out on Midnight Meat Train". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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