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Lynda Barry Quotes

American - Cartoonist | January 2, 1956 -

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

Me Wave Remember New Being Comic

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

Crazy Look Know True Kid Been

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.

College Me Mom Go Want She

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

Inspirational Love People Way Talk

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.

Relationship Hands Something Last

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Ride Me Enjoy New Horror Realistic

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

Color Movies Horror Horror Movies

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

Plan You Ready Play Go Barbie

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

Think System Transit Images I Think

For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple stuff you'd find like in a Bazooka bubblegum wrapper, or in 'Highlights' magazine. I just wanted it to be feelings about looking and seeing and pictures.

Simple Looking Book Picture Drawing

'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.

Writing Book Story Know Class Write

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Death School Start Book Saying You

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