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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body. — Lynda Barry

The histories of vampires and people are not so different, really. How many of us can honestly see our own reflection? — Lynda Barry

I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive. — Lynda Barry

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me. — Lynda Barry

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had. — Lynda Barry

Mr. Harmong is the cheapest chinztiest most pig-lipped tightwad skanked-out lardo king landlord of all time. — Lynda Barry

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry

I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud. — Lynda Barry

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect. — Lynda Barry

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats! — Lynda Barry

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? — Lynda Barry

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se. — Jeff VanderMeer

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me — Lynda Barry

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life. — Lynda Barry

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. — Lynda Barry

My childhood is always going to limit me. — Lynda Barry

The thing I call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants. — Lynda Barry

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry

In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life. — Lynda Barry

Once i knew the blinking cat could not really blink, was just paper and ink. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

You may be a lady but your are still the man! — Lynda Barry

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. — Lynda Barry

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show. — Lynda Barry

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry

One by one most kids I knew quit drawing and never drew again. It left behind too much evidence. — Lynda Barry

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. — Lynda Barry

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' — Lynda Barry

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. — Lynda Barry

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. — Lynda Barry

Same circus, different clowns, and without a doubt I'm one of them. — Lynda Barry

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. — Lynda Barry

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs. — Lynda Barry

Love will make a way out of no way. — Lynda Barry

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid. — Lynda Barry

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason. — Lynda Barry

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to? — Lynda Barry

What is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies? — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky. — Lynda Barry

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. — Lynda Barry

I go to work the minute I open my eyes. — Lynda Barry

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

Are memories pictures or the secret doorway? — Lynda Barry

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. — Lynda Barry

Like say if the mom and dad of god said he could never get dirty. There would be no world! — Lynda Barry

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. — Lynda Barry

You'll never call him Fifi again. — Lynda Barry

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet. — Lynda Barry

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. — Lynda Barry

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. — Lynda Barry

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! — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

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. — Lynda Barry

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid! — Lynda Barry

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. — Lynda Barry

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. — Lynda Barry

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson — Lynda Barry

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason. — Lynda Barry

I didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other. — Lynda Barry

What year is it in your imagination? — Lynda Barry

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer — Lynda Barry

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. — Lynda Barry

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile. — Lynda Barry

Some lights shine without any flashing. Others flash on and off. — Lynda Barry

And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real. — Lynda Barry

[Chucky] Ya peanut headed suckerfool!
Take me on!
Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants!
You think I'm playin'? — Lynda Barry

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected. — Lynda Barry

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. — Lynda Barry

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive? — Lynda Barry

I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system. — Lynda Barry

You may be a lady but you are still the man! — Lynda Barry