Lynda Barry
Cartoonist
1956-01-02
Quotes by Lynda Barry
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You may be a lady but you are still the man!
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You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
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You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
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You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
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You may be a lady but you are still the man!
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You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
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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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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?
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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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We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
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My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.
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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
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People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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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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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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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
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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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