{"author":"Clive Barker","author_id":"Clive+Barker","total_quotes":76,"quotes":[{"text":"That's half of your trouble,' muttered the crocodile. 'You believe everything's true.'That's because everything is,' replied Mr. Bacchus.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["bacchus","clive-barker","fantasy","truth"],"id":4167,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["art","inspirational","love","redemption","sadness"],"id":13694,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"The dead have highways.' Clive Barker.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["clive-barker","ghosts","horror"],"id":32708,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":33333,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["darkness"],"id":35188,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["lies","love","lovers"],"id":37537,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang it highabove my beloved's house,so that she may look uptonightand see it,and seeing it, sigh for meas I sigh for her,moon or no moon.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["abarat","days-of-magic-nights-of-war","longing","love","sad-love"],"id":39980,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that's not what it's about. It can't be about 'My book sold more copies than your book.' It can't be about 'More people went to see my movie than went to see your movie.' If it is about that, then Danielle Steel must be an extraordinarily wonderful author because she sells so many copies. You can't do calculations that way.What interests me is holding the vision: doing something that is yours and making sure that it can't be like anyone else's.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["individuality"],"id":41799,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. 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.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["horror","seasons"],"id":43604,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"},{"text":"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.","author":"Clive Barker","tags":["world","chaos","think "],"id":55433,"author_id":"Clive+Barker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}