Lynda Barry Quotes
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
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I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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Love will make a way out of no way.
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.
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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.
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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'