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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

Topics: Around Door Increasingly Open Think Us Used You I Think

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If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Between Horror Horror Movie Liverpool Movie Saw Showing Somewhere

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I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Because Director Draw End Filled Films Grateful Home Horror Horror Films In The End Insight Me Narrative Psychological Rather Say Skill Spectacle Spectacles Story Take Tale Telling Than Us

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It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Beast Bring Business Center Creature Down Horror Horror Movies Made Movies Same Stands Those Who

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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

Topics: Age Cool Day Day And Night Hit Live New New Thing Next Night Style Telling Thing Us Will

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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

Topics: Any Books Go Horror Labelled Less More Off Shelves Take Tend Them Think Writer I Think

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I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

~Clive Barker

Topics: About Beginnings Being Endings Great Idea Love Stories Terrible I Love

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 5th, 1952

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