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I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Credits Cried Going Had Happiest Her Hours Mother Name Next Opening Remember Remember When Saw She Tell Two Watched I Remember

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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

Topics: Advantage Deal Disconnected Feel Genre Making Particularly Remote Think Which World Writer I Think

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

~Clive Barker

Topics: Books Feel Honest How Look Make Should Somebody Themselves

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As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Always Because Better Charm Downs Ephemeral Everything Part Production Say Than Theatre Ups Ups And Downs You

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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

Topics: Again Allow Books Chaos Chaotic Complexity Create Does Experience Fresh Impress Interpret Make Mythology New New Ways One Of The Things Over Patterns Sense Shapes Things Think Trying Understand Us Ways Which World I Think

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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

Topics: Books Love Make Meeting Movies Other Paintings People Planet Prime Read Reason Show Things I Love I Can

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

~Clive Barker

Topics: Age Certainly Create Early Early Age Heads How Knew Other People Pictures Stories Tell

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I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Been Christ Deeper Elected God Got Journeys Metaphysical See Take

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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

Topics: Beauty Care Citizen Create Effort Games George Hugely Just Just Be Kane Peace People Respect Though Up Want War Warming Who Working

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I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Atmosphere Character Come Design Expert Great Monsters Technician

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 5th, 1952

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