Clive Barker Quotes

I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I just want to get on and tell stories.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I like short stories.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.

As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.