About Lynda Barry: Lynda Jean Barry is an American cartoonist and author.
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Love will make a way out of no way.
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.
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.
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.
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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?
