Lynda Barry Quotes
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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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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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'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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'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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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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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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My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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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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The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
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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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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
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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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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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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?'
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Love will make a way out of no way.
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I am about as detailed as a shadow.
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It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.
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I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.