Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart. Clive Barker More Quotes by Clive Barker More Quotes From Clive Barker She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence. Clive Barker offers absence wanted I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; they’re history. You’re in a darker place now. Clive Barker over-you eye joy …there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at. Clive Barker fun world The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink. Clive Barker hurt writing art At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. Clive Barker way fiction thinking You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death. Clive Barker smell leaving sleep You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. Clive Barker stupid kindness people There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. Clive Barker heartbeat faces world We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. Clive Barker crazy light littles There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings. Clive Barker reading ideas thinking I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. Clive Barker psychosis anxiety special I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers . Clive Barker unity dream hands 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 trying book thinking Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. Clive Barker flames dream winter Always, worlds within worlds. Clive Barker world Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. Clive Barker moon prayer sleep Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer. Clive Barker having-patience lovers suffering Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good. Clive Barker evil numbers two Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads. Clive Barker extraordinary taken men You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied. Clive Barker lied liars
