Lynda Barry Quotes
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I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
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I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
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When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
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It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.
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I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
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My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
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When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!
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In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.
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My childhood is always going to limit me.
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Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.