![]() When people asked, and they were the kind of people who legitimately wanted to know, like your good selves, I've never hidden anything - why would I? The interesting thing is seeing Doug put all of that stuff between two covers and I think he's done a brilliant job, an amazing job. And I've never really hidden any of that stuff, my sexuality or, pretty much, the details of my life. I think that what Doug caught was that many of my arguments with myself are metaphysical arguments, spiritual arguments. My journey with Doug has been a fascinating one and I look forward to it continuing."īy Craig Fohr, Lost Souls, 22 February 2002 (note - online at "I hope that the interesting thing about the book is that it does offer a very truthful portrait of a man who is sort of juggling and trying to work out paths on a spiritual level as he works out a path on an artistic level. And the other is Doug as my friend, analyzing how I got from where I was to where I am and trying to project where I will be. Those portions given over to reviewing the book are in sort of one language, a writerly language. So there are portions of the book that are as if he were reviewing my life as a book. "You should check it out, it's very rich and very layered, because Doug comes at it as both a critic and a friend. Doug has known me a long time, he's known my parents - he knew my dad - he's knows my brother, he's gone and interviewed people I didn't even know were still alive. "I had a huge amount of interaction, over many years. Doug has the permission to use it and all, I think it is just a question whether this book turns out to be 900 pages and the publishers go, 'Wait a second.' But Doug certainly has the story."īy Craig Fohr and Kelly Shaw, Lost Souls, March 2001 (note - interview took place 14 December 2000) But if the publishers don't mind putting this story in, which I wrote when I was 16, I think it'd be great to have it in there. ![]() "I think the only question we have right now is the length of the manuscript and if we'll be able to run the entire story. He just has a really great grasp on who Clive Barker is."īy ,Lost Souls, Issue 10, June 1998 He's really involved himself in my work practices. He's spoken to my parents, my brother, my work mates in England and those here. He's spoken to all those people in my past, more people than anyone else. Nobody on this planet has the grasp that Doug Winter has on my history and my connections in the theatre and how the cinema works. ![]() I did hear a rumour that he was close to completion. ![]() I know it's a big book and an ambitious project. I have my head huddled down, keeping my head below the parapets. I know how I feel when I'm getting close to finishing a book. One doesn't want to push too hard at this time. "I know that Doug Winter is close to completion on the Clive Barker Companion book. Smith, LA Village View, 25-31 August 1995 I've just changed the names to protect the guilty."īy Sean K. "Someone's doing a biography of me now, and I've said on a number of occasions that it's an interesting thing, doing a biography about somebody who really pours their subconscious into their work, because you wonder what there is to discover.
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