Clive Barker - Book Quotes

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

Clive Barker

Movies are much more fascist than books. They tell you what to feel, when to feel it. Popular movies manipulate you. Music tells you when it's a sad part and when it's a happy part. You're obliged to watch them at the speed the filmmaker has created for you. That, I think, is one of the reasons why they're so popular - because you don't have to think very hard. The filmmaker has done all the thinking for you.

Clive Barker

Every body is a book of blood;
Wherever we're opened, we're red.

Clive Barker

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