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Harvey wished he had some weapon to go on the animate being from returning to safe, only he had to be content with the sight of its defeat. If information technology had not wanted their flesh so desperately, he thought, information technology wouldn't have come later them at such a speed, and brought this pain and humiliation upon itself. In that location was a lesson at that place if just he could recall it. Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.
"I'm doing a short fable for children which was just 
Imajiman
By Jon Gregory, Hellraiser, No 2, 1991
"My passion is for imaginative work of i kind or another. I've written ballsy horror, I've written ballsy fantasy, I've written sexual stuff. At present this book offers another area I want to explore. I've never defined myself as a horror author. I meet myself equally an imaginer. And The Thief Of Always is another slice of imagining.
"The Thief Of Always is a lighter feel, both in the experiencing by the reader and in the writing. Only information technology also has its resonances, like in fairy-tales. At that place are worlds within worlds, things subconscious away. I recall that'due south satisfying when you lot notice that you tin can find simple forms of stories that accept richness that you lot don't at first anticipate.
"It is short, with dainty pictures, 'drawn by the man himself,' and moves along at a fair prune. And I'm hoping that at that place volition be readers who come up to this volume and open information technology and enter its worlds more than readily than maybe they would have done with Weaveworld or Imajica; and then in plough they'll be led on to those books."
Satanic Writes
By Craig McLean, Scotland On Dominicus, 29 November 1992
"In creating 'The Thief of Always', the vocabulary of information technology had to be simple. The construction of the sentences as well had to be of a plainer style because I wanted ten-year- olds to be able to read information technology, but I too wanted to appeal to xl-yr-olds in the same fashion that C.Due south.Lewis still appeals to me today."
The Thief of Ever
By Michael Beeler, Cinefantastique, Vol 26 No 3, April 1995
"It felt like exactly the right time to bandage back to the fantasies and ambitions that touched me as a kid. At that place was a purity of evil and a purity of good in those books which is very much a part of the fiction I write as an adult. For the 8-year-olds, 'The Thief of Always' is an adventure about a kid who goes to a firm that seems to promise everything but has a night, terrible clandestine. And to an adult, it's a story about the problems of time and childhood, and what you lot give away in the moments of your youth that you can never go back again. I was striving for the same kind of layered effect you go with 'Alice In Wonderland' or 'The Halloween Tree' - books that are wonderful tales, where even as a child you sense that there's something going on beneath the surface which you can't quite grasp, and once yous become back as an adult, you find it to nonetheless be fresh."
Barker Looks Dorsum
By Anthony C Ferrante, Encarmine All-time of Fangoria, No 12, September 1993
"For the ten-twelvemonth-old who reads Thief of Always, information technology is, I think, an run a risk primarily. It is about a child who has fourth dimension stolen from him and revenges himself royally upon the power that steals from him...
"I would defend to the death the moral care with which Thief of Always has been written. This is not a casually anarchic volume. It's a book... the writer of which believes totally in the underlying morality of the fiction... I hateful, Dorothy is nothing like the Wicked Witch of the Due west. That's why she is the victor. I recollect that'southward actually a misrepresentation of the way that power works in the globe.
"The point that [Harvey] realizes he is, in a sense, the spiritual child of Mr. Hood is the point at which he realizes he tin destroy Mr. Hood."
Lock Up The Kids Horror Titan Clive Barker Unleashes A Children's Fable
By Sean Piccoli, The Washington Times, 16 December 1992
"Comics remain a relatively pocket-size scale endeavour in terms of the number of people that read a comic. It would probably take about 3 months of my fourth dimension to do a comic, which is the fourth dimension it took to write Thief of Always. Which exercise I think I should exist doing; writing another book for kids or doing a comic? I would always choose the book for kids. That'due south merely about trying to get my stories out to the largest number of people."
Confessions
By [Stephen Dressler and Cheryl Bentzen], Lost Souls, Consequence 4, [July] 1996 (note : full text online at the Lost Souls site - see links)
"In the case of The Thief of Always, what I wanted to exercise was brand something with a classical feel of a fairy tale, only at the same time with modern resonance. Harvey Swick, in some respects, is a very modern little kid. Yes, he is the classical child in extremis - how is he going to become out of this, and will he survive? Still, the fourth dimension loop concern of the book is, I call back, a modern awarding. It was interesting that when I showed the book to eight-year-olds and asked them if they knew what was going on in the final chapter of the book, all of them, trained as they are now on countless Star Trek episodes, Terminator and Dorsum To The Future movies, said, 'Sure, come on. What's the large bargain?' I'm non admittedly sure that I would accept got it when I was at the age of viii. I remember that it puts a modernistic twist on the plot.
"The other thing, which I think is different from the classical tale, is that which empowers Harvey when he finally confronts Hood. Harvey sees the darkness in himself. I had a very interesting interview, about three or four weeks ago, where somebody said to me, 'When I first read the book I thought you'd gone all Spielberg on me - the book had go this celebration of babyhood wonder.' In the second reading the interviewer said he realized what the volume's subtext was well-nigh. In fact, dissimilar some of the cruder, disquisitional readings of the book, that suggested that what Harvey does is Indiana Jones-esque, what Harvey does is far from that. He applies to Hood the teachings which Hood, in his ignorance, taught Harvey. He attempts to turn Harvey into a vampire like himself, and Harvey uses those skills right dorsum at the creature. That is a very dark element of the story, because Harvey is empowered by realising that he has this desire to 'bleed' the enemy dry.
"Hood is a vampire lord, but he is so different from the blood-sucking course. He is desexualised, obviously because of the context of the book. He is substantially a soul-stealer, who uses his will and seduction to steal souls from children. It is a very different thing from Nina and Dracula writhing on a bed in various werewolf and bat forms."
Clive Barker
By J.B.Macabre, World of Fandom, Spring 1993, Volume two No.18
"I always knew that Thief was basically a paperback book. It is a book that will be bought at least as much past young people as older people and it needs to be a cheap volume. Roald Dahl does no business organisation whatsoever in hardcover. Roald Dahl is a paperback guy because kids buy them. Twenty bucks is a lot of money for a book. It is one of the reasons why I did the illustrations the way I did them. Black and white reduce actually nicely. It is virtually incommunicable to screw upward the printing considering it is so simple, there'south and then little fine tuning in it. I was always conscious that The Thief of E'er really needed to be a paperback book, that was its final life"
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Michael Brown, Dread, No eleven
"The Thief of Always is a perfect example of my trying to remind people of how wonderful the bicycle of the seasons is. It is a book that asks: What happens if you exercise this in i twenty-four hours? Wait at this. Just wait at this ! Expect at what the year does to u.s.a.. Look at all these wonderful things...At the eye of the volume there is a very elementary idea; Alive in the moment and understand that the moment is miraculous. Don't alive for the side by side moment, or the moment later that, considering while you're waiting for the next thing to come along your life is slipping away. And information technology'due south interesting that the kids get it!"
Addicted To Creativity (Part 2)
By Bill Babouris, Samhain, No 71, January 1999
"I was just reading about Tolkein...writing near writing The Hobbit. And proverb he never even thought well-nigh writing for children. He only wrote. And I was comparing that with my writing of Thief. For 1 affair, there'south a lot of things that appear in my developed novels that do non appear in my work for children. In that location is a lot of sexuality a lot of violence and violent language and profanity that are not appropriate for children's books. So right off the bat there're a whole agglomeration of things which you are not going to practise. So that changes completely your approach.
"I don't miss the profanity and the violence and the eroticism in each of these books considering the narratives have their own rewards. There are things in the Thief of Ever that have a uncomplicated beauty to them which have me back to Ray Bradbury, who is one of the corking masters of writing. If you read Something Wicked This Way Comes when you are 10, it means something very different to you than if you read it in your thirty's or xl's. And I promise Thief of E'er is the same. I know that the children who read Thief of Always love the adventure, and honey Harvey getting turned into a vampire, and they love the fight at the cease, and all that stuff. And they tend to find other things in the book.
"The face of publishing is being changed correct at present by a serial of children's books, for example Harry Potter. And what's interesting near the Harry Potter books is that very evidently a lot of adults are reading these books. I mean you can't stay number ane on the bestseller'south list for that long if yous are only existence read by kids. The Harry Potter books have printed the way for a lot of publishers to the fact that adults love fairy tales. They honey fantasy. I think information technology's wonderful and encouraging for all of us because at that place is this huge market out there. I've been telling HarperCollins for years, 'Don't worry about it. If it's written for children, just put information technology out there. Don't exist and then captivated with that. Thief of Ever will be enjoyed past all kinds of people. But permit information technology be enjoyed.' And they are getting the message now, it took Harry Potter for them to get the bulletin, but they are getting it. Slowly I am seeing the landscape of the publishing industry changing around me. Some of it skillful, some of it bad... I feel what I gotta do is write out of the truthful place in myself, and if information technology appeals to children, that'due south great, and if it doesn't at that place'southward non much I can practise virtually information technology."
Confessions
Past [Craig Fohr], Lost Souls Newsletter, September / December 2000 (note - interview took place 25 August 2000)
"Over and over, it's the confrontations with the great villains in books like 'Treasure Island', 'Pinocchio' and 'The Wizard Of Oz' that, when you're a kid, requite you a delicious combination of fear and pleasance. I'm not the only kid I know who liked the 'Night On Bald Mountain' sequence in Fantasia. It'southward no accident there are every bit many dark passages equally there are vivid in Disney films, and information technology's no accident that those dark passages are the ones you recollect.
"The Thief is intended for my fans, simply information technology's as well a book that will be accessible to 10 year-olds, especially if they're little 10 year-olds like I was. Twisted."
From The Mind Of Clive Barker
By Nicole Peradotto, Buffalo News, 11 September, 1992
"The story had occurred to me a while agone and I'd written it downwardly in curt form called The Vacation House and I showed information technology to my agent who wasn't peculiarly eager about information technology, so I went into a corner and just did it, 
"It was a bang-up writing feel, in the sense that I actually knew what the narrative was going to be. I laid information technology out in chapters before writing it, I laid out what I idea the action was going to be. I had a really clear sense of it. I wish novels were always this easy, just they're not. But of all the things I've written, this was probably the simplest process."
An Interview With Clive Barker
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