When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
For 'Picture This,' I wanted it to be a drawing book that didn't have any instructions about drawing, beyond the real simple… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
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… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
