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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
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
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
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
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
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
— Lynda Barry
Love will make a way out of no way.
— Lynda Barry
But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
— 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
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
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
Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson
— 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
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
Take me on!
Ya ugly knuckle butted dogface underpants!
You think I'm playin'? — 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
You may be a lady but you are still the man!
— Lynda Barry