Clive Barker et l'écriture

Clive Barker à propos de l'écriture...

"My job doesn't involve critiquing, I don't judge, I don't think, I don't calculate - I do. My job is not to worry about where my strengths are; my job is to follow my gut, and if it's shit, somebody else will tell me. I'm not gonna sit around and think about that. Life is way too short as it is...

"In fact, I write an entire novel, always, without ever reading the page before. Then, when it's done, after a year or so, I read the whole thing. It stops you from being self-conscious, it stops you from analysing, it stops you wishing to have done this or that. Bugger that - just do it. Don't dream it, be it. Erase the part of yourself that's eating at your confidence. I've always been this way. And it isn't confidence that does it; it's the lack of confidence. Its roots are in incredible lack of self-esteem. I know that if I went back and looked at the pages right now, I would just give up. So I simply don't do it. It's like going into a room where you know is a monster - you just don't go in. And it works for me. It wouldn't work for everybody, but it works for me."

J'ai trouvé la citation ici, sur la meilleur référence concernant Barker, www.clivebarker.info.