Interviews 2025

Book Of Blood

By Majo Pavlovic, Rue Morgue, No.22, January/February 2025 (note: interview undertaken in summer/fall 2024)

Rue Morgue, No.22, January/February 2025
Rue Morgue, No.22, January/February 2025

"I'm good. I'm overworked, but that's fine. We've got a lot of things going on. I'm writing the sequel to The Thief of Always right now, which is called Deep Hill; I'm writing a story about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, which is called A World Without Witnesses; I'm writing a story about the Nativity but told from a very strange point of view; and I'm preparing a third Book of the Art...
"You know, I've been very lucky. All the paintings I want to paint, I paint. All the books I want to write, I write. All the poetry I want to set down, I set down. I suppose you could say that cinema is a little more frustrating because I don't have complete control over it. And you know, I've had problems - clearly with Nightbreed - dealing with people who wanted to interfere with the work. But that doesn't happen anywhere else in my life, so I'm blessed, I think. When I worked in theatre, I wrote and directed many plays, and again, I had no problems. So, given the problems that so many people have, I have very few. If I were still to be 40 and I could make a movie of one of my projects, I think I'd probably go for Weaveworld."

Hellraiser: Clive Barker On Sex, Art, And Death

By Laurence Thompson, The Post, Liverpool, 22 January 2025

"Paul Klee said drawing is taking a line for a walk. I think writing is the same thing. I take a sentence for a walk and, if Iā€™m lucky... very rarely, but sometimes, I will have the feeling that I know how this is going to end. Weaveworld, for instance, begins with 'Nothing ever begins', and ends with, 'This story, having no beginning, will have no end.'... Creation of any kind ā€“ painting, writing, poetry ā€“ is a very mysterious process."




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