Lynda Barry's Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

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.

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.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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.

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

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

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

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