The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

4 through 6 were publiClive Barkerd in the U. Barker said in a December 2008 online interview (publiClive Barkerd March 2009) that he had polyps in his throat which were so severe that a doctor told him he was taking in ten percent of the air he was supposed to have been getting. According to the Revelations website the collection includes "introductions to both his own work and the works of others newspaper and magazine articles tributes and appreciations and other contributions to books".

Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which establiClive Barkerd him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.