Quotes by Lynn Johnston

About Lynn Johnston:

Lynn Johnston is a Canadian cartoonist, known for her newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.
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You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Lynn Johnston

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

Lynn Johnston

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

Lynn Johnston

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Lynn Johnston

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Lynn Johnston

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

Lynn Johnston

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

Lynn Johnston

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

Lynn Johnston

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.

Lynn Johnston

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did ...

Lynn Johnston

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Lynn Johnston

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

Lynn Johnston

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send he...

Lynn Johnston

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Lynn Johnston

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

Lynn Johnston

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Lynn Johnston

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

Lynn Johnston

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

Lynn Johnston

Author Bio

  • NameLynn Johnston
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornMay 28, 1947
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionArtist
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of Canada